Subject: Re: mii-tool gigabit support.

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:31:44 -0700

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:24:59 -0700 (PDT)
dean gaudet <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > The mii-tool utility seems to be abandoned and unmaintained?
> > > 
> > > Here is a version that does standard 1000baseT support.
> > > 	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/mii-tool.tar.bz2
> > 
> > Not really.  I would rather leave it as-is, and deprecate it in favor of
> > ethtool.
> 
> is there some ethtool (version 5) option i'm missing that will give a nice 
> concise link negotation state report like mii-tool does?
> 
> on e1000 it seems i can find this info only via the -d option, which dumps 
> a lot of other info.
> 
> on skge -d doesn't seem to dump the negotiation state.
>

Not possible because the PHY registers are accessed indirectly.

> on tg3 -d doesn't even interpret the registers...
> 
> maybe it's just that i haven't had caffeine but i think i've tried every 
> reporting option i can find on the man page and can't find link 
> negotiation state.
> 
> -dean

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>