From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-3.1smp i686) [yes - its really Roswell, I couldn't select it from the version list] Description of problem: Network card failed to use DHCP to set up address due to incorrect status returned by mii-tool. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Change from manual IP addresses to DHCP on eth0 2. /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network restart Actual Results: Error message indicates "no link", then [FAILED]. Actual output from mii-tool was... eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link Expected Results: Expected [OK] from start up script, no diagnostic messages. Actual output from mii-tool should indicate 100 Mbit, link active, .... Additional info: cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ONBOOT="yes" IPADDR="192.27.48.41" NETMASK="255.255.255.128" cat /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 8139too alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound-slot-0 es1371 post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias usb-controller usb-uhci
This is fixed in that the initscripts don't use mii-tool anymore as of 6.11-1; it is not reliable enough.