[Gllug] whereami.deb

[Stig Brautaset]

* Dave Jones <davej at suse.de> spake thus:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:34:26PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
>  > * Dave Jones <davej at suse.de> spake thus:
>  > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:06:37PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
>  > >  > If I run mii-tool alone, I only get this:
>  > >  > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
>  > >  > no MII interfaces found
>  > > 
>  > > Looks like your network driver doesn't support the MII ioctls.
>  > > Upgrading to a more recent kernel might help. What NIC is this ?
>  > 
>  > It is a Xircom Combo (Cardbus) 10/100 CBEM56G-100, and I'm running
>  > 2.4.18 with the xircom_cb module.
> 
> grepping xircom drivers in 2.4.19pre8 yeilded this in xircom_tulip_cb.c
> 
>     case SIOCGMIIPHY:       /* Get address of MII PHY in use. */
> 
> So it's added there at least..
> Seems there are two xircom drivers these days, so maybe trying the
> alternative driver will work ?

I've tried to load the module, but that fails. I don't know what
parameters it should be loaded with, so I'm trying to compile it into
the kernel instead. 

> Failing that, if you feel adventurous, adding the ioctl support to the
> other driver shouldn't be too much work. In fact most of it should be
> cut-n-pastable.

Now this sounds intriguing... if need be, and nobody beats me to it I
will try :) Won't happen quite yet though, 'cause I have a exams on
monday, tuesday & thursday... 

Stig, heading back to more revision
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