Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 123401
(NET EPIC)mii-tool and ethtool both incorrectly show epic100 ethernet link as down
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:05:53 EST
Description of problem: Both mii-tool and ethtool indicate that there is no link on an SMSC Epic/100 83c170 (using the epic100.c driver) card, despite the fact that there is in fact a link and manual configuration of the card (either by static address assignment or dhclient) works properly. This causes the network scripts to fail. The workaround at http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/guestos_redhat90.html#1128831 allows the scripts to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.354 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Obtain a crappy SMC NIC 2. Attach a known good Ethernet cable (you can test this by manual configuration of the card or hand-starting dhclient) 2. run ethtool on it Actual results: ethtool reports link down Expected results: ethtool reports link up Additional info:
Created attachment 100294 [details] lspci information
(This is likely related to 120623 ... sorry for the spam, I had so much trouble getting bugzilla to play nice with my browser that I forgot to mention that.)
Unrelated I think. The "mii' bug you see ought to be fixed in the errata kernel we released. Please test and let me know
Assuming that you are referencing 2.6.6-1.435, the bug does not appear to be fixed. Both mii-tool and ethtool still report the link as down, despite the NIC being operational and in use as the host's only network interface.
fixed in the latest errata kernels ?
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