From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010725 Description of problem: My NIC is not detected by /sbin/mii-tool. As a result install does not configure the network. I had to chmod -x mii-tool and edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions so that check_link_down returns 1 if mii-tool is not found. I think there are two issues here. my NIC is a Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) running 100baset onto a small switch. It works fine. however : [root@wattle john]# /sbin/mii-tool eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run /sbin/mii-tool on this particular NIC 2. 3. Actual Results: [root@wattle john]# /sbin/mii-tool eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link Expected Results: [root@wattle john]# /sbin/ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:40:c7:81:8d:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff I don't know how to get the media speed for this NIC offhand, but my switch insists it is running at 100MHz, the link is definitely up since this browser is using it. Additional info: There is no bugzilla category for mii-yool
The code that checks mii-tool is removed from initscripts-6.12-1.