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Message-ID: <1309962484.4280.25.camel@localhost>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:28:04 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.0.0rc6: ethtool not working without a cable
On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 13:38 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 3.0.0rc6, thinkpad t400 notebook.
>
> If there is no cable then ethtool reports no device. It wasn't that before
> AFAIK.
>
> ethtool version 2.6.36
>
>
> cable disconnected:
>
> [root@...0 ~]# ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
> Cannot get device settings: No such device
> Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: No such device
> Cannot get message level: No such device
> Cannot get link status: No such device
> No data available
> zsh: exit 75 ethtool eth0
> [root@...0 ~]# ethtool -i eth0
> Cannot get driver information: No such device
> zsh: exit 71 ethtool -i eth0
[...]
Then there really isn't a device under that name. Maybe the driver is
getting a bogus MAC address, so that the device is renamed by udev.
Check which devices do exist, and the MAC addresses they have, using 'ip
link'.
Ben.
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