P.S. the tool you're looking for is ethtool. mii-tool is obsolete. Michael Joy HEP - University of Mississippi [log in to unmask] On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:55 -0600, Michael David Joy wrote: > Well the first thing I'd say is that the realtek chipset's are terrible > if you really want performance. They don't do any packet header > processing or other tcp hardware offloading, causing your CPU to take > the brunt of the packet load (with gigabit this is bad). > > I would recommend Broadcom or Intel based gigabit cards. > > Regardless of this fact, mii-tool doesn't support reading out gigabit > link status. It'll give you a link up status with 100FD for 1000FD cards > linked at 1000FD with flow control enabled. > > I know it at least reports on the broadcom and intel based cards with a > link up status. > > Otherwise, I think you might need to find another tool to get real link > status out of a gigabit nic. > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:32 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just purchased some Netgear 1gigabit ethernet cards and to my > > dissapointment mii-tool couldn't be used to query them, even though the linux > > kernel has no issues with using them. > > > > I run cluster software with SL303 which uses mii-tool to do link level > > checking etc... so my question is, which 1gigabit cards work correctly with > > SL303 and mii-tool? so that I get output similar to the following: > > > > [root@anaconda root]# mii-tool > > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok > > eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok > > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not supported > > > > note: eth2 is the Netgear card (which uses a Realtek chip), the other two are > > just standard Realtek PCI cards. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Michael.