From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 Red Hat/1.5.0.8-0.1.el4 Firefox/1.5.0.8 pango-text Description of problem: I have a NIC using the tg3 driver. When I boot the machine with the Xen kernel ethtool will only report link status when ran in Dom0. [root@hat ~]# uname -a Linux hat.netact.noklab.net 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:57:36 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@hat ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Link detected: yes Rebooting with the "standard" kernel gives me all the other settings as well. [root@hat ~]# uname -a Linux hat.netact.noklab.net 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:34:46 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@hat ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes The NIC is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) pciid: 14e4:1648 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the Xen kernel 2. ethtool eth0 Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
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Closing as NOTABUG. I got confused by eth0 no longer being the physical interface in DOM0. So the correct thing to do is to run "ethtool peth0" which works fine. If anyone is interested, Bug 209996 is about NetworkManager testing the wrong interface in DOM0