Bug 149691 - No data avaliable for eth card
Summary: No data avaliable for eth card
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 156320
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-25 11:43 UTC by Radek Vokál
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-663
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-09-28 14:48:35 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
jwltest-3c59x-2_6_12-rc2.patch (20.30 KB, patch)
2005-04-04 18:06 UTC, John W. Linville
no flags Details | Diff
jwltest-3c59x-ethtool.patch (11.60 KB, patch)
2005-04-05 20:46 UTC, John W. Linville
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:663 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 6 2005-09-28 04:00:00 UTC

Description Radek Vokál 2005-02-25 11:43:05 UTC
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Description of problem:
Ethtool doesn't show any info for a eth card. On RHEL3 box with
kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL ethtool for eth0 shows

# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
No data available

mii-tool resolves NIC correctly as

# mii-tool eth0
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

ethtool only reports the driver used

# ethtool -i eth0
driver: 3c59x
version: LK1.1.18-ac
firmware-version:
bus-info: 00:09.0

ifconfig
# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:78:0D:18
          inet addr:x.x.x.x  Bcast:x.x.x.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fec0::1/64 Scope:Site
          inet6 addr: xxxx/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:343390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:265084 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:312236399 (297.7 MiB)  TX bytes:32742871 (31.2 MiB)
          Base address:0xdf40 Memory:fcfe0000-fd000000


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ethtool-1.8-3.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ethtool eth0
2. observe the output
3.
    

Actual Results:  No data available

Expected Results:  "some" data

Additional info:

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2005-03-30 21:11:04 UTC
This isn't "broken" per se...there just are no ethtool methods for anything
except get driver info. :-(

I'll look into adding some... :-)

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2005-04-04 18:06:24 UTC
Created attachment 112676 [details]
jwltest-3c59x-2_6_12-rc2.patch

It seems that the latest 3c59x driver upstream provides enhanced ethtool
support...

Comment 3 John W. Linville 2005-04-04 19:09:26 UTC
Pre-built test kernels are available here: 
 
   http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ 
 
Please give them a try and report the results.  Thanks! 

Comment 4 Radek Vokál 2005-04-05 06:51:20 UTC
Hmm, I'm not sure I can help with the test here. The machine with the NIC is
remote RHEL3 stable system used as a router and I'm not willing to break it :)
... But I cat try to change the card in the machine as soon as I get there and
test it on my computer. 

Comment 5 John W. Linville 2005-04-05 20:46:23 UTC
Created attachment 112729 [details]
jwltest-3c59x-ethtool.patch

Pretty sure it would be better to use a RHEL3-based patch and test
kernel...whoops!  Pre-built test kernels coming soon...

Comment 6 John W. Linville 2005-04-05 21:25:58 UTC
Pre-built kernels available here: 
 
   http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel3/ 
 
Please test (at your convenience) and post the results.  Thanks! 

Comment 7 John W. Linville 2005-04-06 15:10:44 UTC
I have verified that the patch is working on my i686 RHEL3 box... 

Comment 9 Radek Vokál 2005-04-11 09:11:33 UTC
Works also for me, the output looks much more nicer .. 

Comment 10 Ernie Petrides 2005-04-23 00:40:13 UTC
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U6
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-32.2.EL).


Comment 18 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-28 14:48:35 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html



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