On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:57:47PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: >Hi Eric, > >On 26 Jun, this message from Eric Delaunay echoed through cyberspace: >>Michel Lanners wrote: >>>Package: ethtool >>>Version: 1.3-1 >>> >>>ethtool reports wrong values for speed, duplex and auto-negotiation when >>>used on RTL8139C, whereas values are OK for RTL8139B. >> >>Hello Michel, >> >> I packaged the latest release of ethtool (1.6). >>Could you try it and see if it still report bogus infos? > >Tried, and yes: it still reports wrong. It's even worse, the additional >info reported in 1.6 vs. 1.3 is all wrong :(
I uploaded ethtool 5-1. Could you please try it. >>Btw, I'm not sure the problem was in ethtool because the code to dump status >>of >>the interface is really straightforward: it just decode data returned from >>kernel call the same way for all ethernet drivers. Maybe the problem is in the >>kernel driver itself? > >I'll have a look, and also make sure it behaves the same between PowerPC >an i386, to exclude an endian bug. But I think I found the problem on >the i386; I never used the RTL8139B in the PowerPC. > >You may be right with your assumption... > >Cheers, and thanks > >Michel > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. >23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. >L-1710 Luxembourg | >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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