Description of problem: Link is present, network works, just I am unable to enable the Xircom CreditCard ethernet interface with ifup, because mii-tool reports "no link" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Basically all kernels I tried since FC6 to 2.6.23 Steps to Reproduce: 1. /sbin/mii-tool eth0 Actual results: eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link Additional info: If this is not going to be fixed, this should get reassigned to initscripts and we should modify the check_link_down() to make it possible to override what it gets from ethtool amd miitool. It also might be that my hardware is broken, it looks .... old and used. But that's unlikely :)
Created attachment 267641 [details] Patch to make it possible to configure the interface to ignore link tests adding ASSUMELINK=yes to ifcfg-eth* will ignore results of the link test, usable in case {mii-,eth}tool gives false results.
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