[Linuxha-users] Netgear 1Gbps network card and mii-tool

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Simon,

As discussed earlier, I have purchased 2x Netgear Gigabit cards:

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/GA311.php

On boot these show up as:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
r8169: PCI device 00:0f.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL-8169
r8169: PCI device 00:0f.0: TxConfig = 0x4000000
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2
eth2: Identified chip type is 'RTL-8169'.
eth2: RealTek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xxxxxxxxx, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 4
eth2: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth2: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.

and on the standby node:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:09.0
r8169: PCI device 00:09.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL-8169
r8169: PCI device 00:09.0: TxConfig = 0x4000000
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL-8169'.
eth1: RealTek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xxxxxxxxx, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 4
eth1: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth1: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.

Each card has a RealTek chip on it, so the assumption the kernel makes above 
is correct.

I've given these cards 10.x.x.x subnets, and am able to ping between the two 
(I've used a cross-over cable to hook each of them up to one another)

However, mii-tools shows me the following:

# mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not supported

Is this an issue when running with linuxha.net?

Thanks.

Michael.