dead network on JS21 with tg3 driver after flowcontrol changes

Michael Chan mchan at broadcom.com
Sat May 17 01:09:02 EST 2008


Olaf Hering wrote:

> Yes, this patch fixes nfsroot for me. Thanks.
> mii-tool is not shipped anymore, even in SLES10.
> I assume that ethtool is the replacement?
> 

Thanks.  We'll send the patch to DaveM and to stable
as well.

ethtool can provide some high level link parameters.
But in this case, I was trying to use mii-tool to
look at the PHY registers to help debug the problem.
ethtool would not provide that kind of information.




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