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Re: SIOCGMIIPHY for sungem



On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:12, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> I am trying to detect if there is a cable plugged in the network card
> however, sungem driver does not seem to support SIOCGMIIPHY. Is there
> some work around to get the link status ?

ethtool works. And if you want to run it as a normal user, fix this:
<jgarzik> hadess: net/core/dev.c, the calls to dev_ifsioc require 
CAP_NET_ADMIN, even the get-info ioctls

I didn't get to cook up a quick patch yet.

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net



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