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| author | Bernd Eckenfels <net-tools@lina.inka.de> | 2004-03-28 21:35:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Bernd Eckenfels <net-tools@lina.inka.de> | 2004-03-28 21:35:11 +0000 |
| commit | 6ead3cb243831e5f36735faffd68cd2d776ee4b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 705c1ff05ba696963626a4560c4d293563617620 | |
| parent | b3412aa07f04552cf8fa6e1005a273d3f3ad6bc2 (diff) | |
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added diagnostics (closes debian bug #239229: EINVAL for downed interface)
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diff --git a/man/en_US/mii-tool.8 b/man/en_US/mii-tool.8 index 6b773ec..66d79c6 100644 --- a/man/en_US/mii-tool.8 +++ b/man/en_US/mii-tool.8 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" Copyright (C) 2000 David A. Hinds -- dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org .\" mii-tool.8 1.5 2000/04/25 22:58:19 .\" -.TH MII-TOOL 8 "2000/04/25 22:58:19" "net-tools" +.TH MII-TOOL 8 "2004/03/28 23:30:00" "net-tools" .SH NAME mii-tool \- view, manipulate media-independent interface status @@ -72,7 +72,24 @@ media technologies. Multiple technologies should be separated by commas. Valid media are \fB100baseT4\fR, \fB100baseTx-FD\fR, \fB100baseTx-HD\fR, \fB10baseT-FD\fR, and \fB10baseT-HD\fR. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +.TP +SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth?' failed: Invalid argument +If the interface is not running (up), kernel will refuse to report its link state. +.TP +SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth?' failed: Operation not permitted +Most kernels restrict access to root. +.TP +SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth?' failed: No such device +This error is shown, if the kernel does not know about the named device. +.TP +SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth?' failed: Operation not supported +The interface in question does not support MII queries. Most likely, it does not have +MII tranceivers, at all. + .SH AUTHORS David Hinds \- dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org .br Donald Becker \- becker@scyld.com +.br +Bernd Eckenfels \- ecki@debian.org |