[tulip] SIOCGMIIPHY

[Marinho Barcellos]

Hello

anyone has any idea why a configuration operation (ioctl())
SIOCGMIIPHY on a socket might fail, considering it's a
Conexant board and as such has a MII transceiver?
(Info: kernel 2.4.8, driver tulip.c:v0.93 11/7/2001)

Error message:
[root@tyne diag]# mii-diag  -vw eth0
mii-diag.c:v2.00 4/19/2000  Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed: Operation not supported

The above happens in the following section of code in mii-diag:

        /* Get the vitals from the interface. */
        strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, ifname, IFNAMSIZ);
        if (ioctl(skfd, SIOCGMIIPHY, &ifr) < 0) {
                fprintf(stderr, "SIOCGMIIPHY on %s failed: %s\n", ifname,
                        strerror(errno));
                (void) close(skfd);
        return 1;
}

Many thanks, Marinho.
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