On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/03/07 16:11, Ralph Katz wrote:
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Maybe check your NIC. What do you get for this (etch):
$ grep 'link up' /var/log/dmesg
Maybe the ancient PII has an ancient ethernet card!
My (just purchased) system running kernel 2.6.22 describes a SATA
link when running that command. Ethernet is described grepping for
"eth".
You'll probably find 'ethtool' more useful for this sort of thing.
For example:
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
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: 1000Mb/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
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