[eepro100] Speed and Duplexing, Once Again

Ben Greear greearb@candelatech.com
Thu Oct 17 18:52:01 2002


Ben Greear wrote:
> Danish Mirza wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
>> Yes you are right about the eepro100.
> 
> 
>> It shows 100baseTx-FD.  Can mii-tool handles gige speeds ?
>> Do we have another utility by you to check the status.
> 
> 
> Try ethtool.  Actually, I just tried to use it...I can't figure
> out how to get it to display useful information, but I know older
> versions did...

For posterity's sake, don't use ethtool -i eth5, use ethtool eth5 instead:

Here's my tg3:

[root@lf-demo1 root]# ethtool eth5
Settings for eth5:
         Supported ports: [ MII ]
         Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
         Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
         Speed: 100Mb/s
         Duplex: Full
         Port: Twisted Pair
         PHYAD: 1
         Transceiver: internal
         Auto-negotiation: on
         Supports Wake-on: g
         Wake-on: d
         Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
         Link detected: yes
[root@lf-demo1 root]#



> 
> Ben
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