From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 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:
This isn't "broken" per se...there just are no ethtool methods for anything except get driver info. :-( I'll look into adding some... :-)
Created attachment 112676 [details] jwltest-3c59x-2_6_12-rc2.patch It seems that the latest 3c59x driver upstream provides enhanced ethtool support...
Pre-built test kernels are available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ Please give them a try and report the results. Thanks!
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.
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...
Pre-built kernels available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel3/ Please test (at your convenience) and post the results. Thanks!
I have verified that the patch is working on my i686 RHEL3 box...
Works also for me, the output looks much more nicer ..
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).
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