FS#14117 - [netcfg] link detection broken, use ethtool in favour of mii-tool

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christoph S. (caustic) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 23:41 GMT
Last edited by James Rayner (iphitus) - Monday, 06 April 2009, 10:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To James Rayner (iphitus)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

netcfg uses mii-tool to detect if a link is established and exits with an error in case there is no link. the problem is, that mii-tool does only support a few network cards and reports no link when the networkcard is not supported:

# mii-tool eth0
SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link

# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: Unknown! (65535)
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 2
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbag
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
Link detected: yes


# ethtool -i eth0
driver: e1000e
version: 0.3.3.3-k6
firmware-version: 1.8-3
bus-info: 0000:00:19.0
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Closed by  James Rayner (iphitus)
Monday, 06 April 2009, 10:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Monday, 06 April 2009, 10:26 GMT
Already fixed in git, and dupe.

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