Re: ethtool -d no longer works for e1000

[Jon Mason <jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 06:35 pm, cramerj wrote:
> Ah!  Yes, if you're running ethtool 1.8, then this was an issue (or
> rather, an annoyance) in e1000.c where we would default to mac_type =
> e1000_undefined for any newer hardware.  Continuous updates to this file
> for every piece of hardware we released got old pretty quick.  We've
> since changed the default mac_type to e1000_82543, which has a basic set
> of registers that haven't changed with each hardware release.  And
> although the e1000_82546 mac_type exists, it isn't yet being assigned to
> the 82546GB hardware (again, see e1000.c), thus the error.
>
> Long story short, an updated ethtool should do the trick.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeb

Ah, I am running ethtool 3 on a 82545 chip, that is probably why mine works.

Thanks,
Jon