[PLUG] Re: [PDXLUG] Slackware-9.0 questions

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Jul 20 09:26:01 UTC 2003


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> The MII is the NIC's Media Independent Interface. The MII is used to
> autonegotiate link speed and duplexing settings.

Paul,

  Aha!

> If you've got a tool called mii-tool, you can run it as root to see if
> your system think's it's got any MII-capable interfaces on your
> system.

  Yes, in /sbin/mii-tool. However, when I run 'mii-tool -v' I see "No mii
transceiver present". Does this mean the card's bad? Or, ...?

Many thanks,

Rich

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