Re: Detecting state of iBook gmac ethernet

["Kin Chung" <khchung001@hotmail.com>]

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> From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
> Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu
> To: khchung001@hotmail.com
> CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Detecting state of iBook gmac ethernet
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 00:33:56 +0100 (CET)
>
> On  30 Nov, this message from Kin Chung echoed through cyberspace:
> > I am trying to set up my ibook to auto-detect and automatically
> > set up its ethernet connection.
>
> If you are looking for location-dependant network settings, look at
> intuitively (available in woody).
>
> If you are looking for ethernet hardware config such as speed and/or
> duplex state, search the archives of this list or of linuxppc-dev; there
> has been some talk about that issue lately. IIRC, there have been some
> mods by BenH to make the GMAC driver compatible with ethtool and/or
> miitool.

Thanks, both to you and BenH.  I was more or less looking for at least
the latter and expecting to have to write the former.

Cheers,

Kin Hoong

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