From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011014 Description of problem: The pcmcia net drivers in drivers/net/pcmcia do not use the MII ioctls, they still use the DEVPRIVATE ioctls. As a result mii-tool (from net-tools-1.60-3) does not work on pcmcia net interfaces, since it was updated to use the MII ioctls instead of the DEVPRIVATE ones. Kernel version: 2.4.9-13 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Xircom CEM56 pcmcia card 2. Network comes up 3. "mii-tool eth0" fails 4. "ltrace mii-tool eth0" shows that ioctl 0x8947 (SIOCGMIIPHY) fails 5. Examination of files in /usr/src/linux-2.4.9/drivers/net/pcmcia shows that all drivers still use the SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctls that were used by mii-tool of net-tools previous to 1.60, instead of the new SIOCGMIIPHY ioctls used by the mii-tool of net-tools 1.60-3 (changed by redhat patch net-tools-1.60-miiioctl.patch of net-tools-1.60-3) Actual Results: mii-tool fails Expected Results: mii-tool working on Xircom CEM56 card. Additional info:
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