[realtek] Realtek 8139too and mii-tool. Wrong link state.

[Jeff Garzik]

Donald Becker wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> 
>>Subject: [realtek] Realtek 8139too and mii-tool. Wrong link state.
>>
>>Description: mii-tool from net-tools-1.60-66( and probably others)
>>always says, that link is dead in spite of the link is ok or not.
>>With, for example 3com 905c-tx tornado, mii-tool works fine.
> 
> 
> I'm guessing that 8139too doesn't return the proper values for the
> ioctl() call.


You would be correct -- there was a bug fixed recently that munged the 
MII phy id.  2.4.19-pre10 includes the fix.

	Jeff