Re: mii-tool eth0 wierdness

[Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:22:10AM +1200, Simon Buchanan wrote:
> Hi There, i have a debian woody box that i am connected to via ssh, here 
> is the ifconfig:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:FC:XX:XX:XX
>           inet addr:203.109.xxx.xx  Bcast:203.109.xxx.xx 
> Mask:255.255.255.xxx
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:4109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1079 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:16
>           collisions:23 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:809755 (790.7 KiB)  TX bytes:169903 (165.9 KiB)
>           Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000
> 
> When i check the link with mii-tool i get the following response:
> 
> box:/etc# mii-tool -v eth0
> eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link
>   product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0
>   basic mode:   10 Mbit, half duplex
>   basic status: no link
>   capabilities:
>   advertising:
> 
> NO LINK? But im connected to the thing - and its connected to a 100Mbit 
> hub... Is this a problem with the ethernet card?
IIRC some NICs have a special Kernel option for mii support.
Maybe you can give some information about your NIC.

Sven
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