Bug 140062
Summary: | tg3 reports incorrect information to mii-tool | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Brian Long <brilong> |
Component: | net-tools | Assignee: | Radek Vokál <rvokal> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3.0 | CC: | davem, djuran, riel |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-10-06 14:20:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Brian Long
2004-11-19 16:06:57 UTC
When a fibre interface is present, we return -EOPNOTSUPP for the ioctls that mii-tool uses. If mii-tool isn't handling that error condition correctly, then that is what needs to be fixed. How can I verify mii-tool is the culprit? Should this bug get assigned to the mii-tool developer? Assigning to owner of net-tools package for appropriate action... mii-tool is obsolete and doesn't know about gigabit NICs. So I suggest using ethtool while ethtool is heading to fully substitute mii-tool. (new version of net-tools in fc3 has a note in mii-tool(8) about this) If mii-tool were to echo "This program does not return proper information from Gigabit adapters; please use ethtool", that would be acceptable. Currently, mii-tool is broken on RHEL 3 because it returns bogus information. If it returned an error message when querying Gigabit adapters, that would be fine; returning bogus information saying 10mbs is a bug and I believe it should be fixed. Red Hat support / prod mgmt claims mii-tool will not be fixed. Closing this bug. |