We have used the 1.4 LiveCDs for our servers and on some Dell 1650s we have Intel PRO/1000 gigabit adaptors. Some of the switch ports that these servers are connected to are forced to full-duplex and when the NIC on the server autonegotiates during installation, it runs into a duplex mismatch and sets to half-duplex. We usually use mii-tool on our servers to reset the duplex to full, but it appears that it is unable to work with the Intel PRO/1000 adaptors. So we would like to have another utility available to work with duplex settings on this interface. (Maybe eth-tool?) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect server NIC to switch port forced to 100/Full. 2. Boot from Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD. 3. Use dmesg to verify duplex of NIC and use mii-tool to try to manually set interface to 100/Full. Actual Results: cdimage root # mii-tool SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not supported no MII interfaces found Expected Results: Allowed setting of duplex and speed settings on interface.
ethtool is the right tool for this. It's also required for 10 Gbit. LiveCD team, please start including ethtool on the LiveCDs.
John, can you add that to the specfile-templates?
Please add to the .spec template
already added to the specfile
