David Ashley wrote:
> mii-tool doesn't work with the 8139too.c driver (RTL8139 based network cards).
> Internally the driver uses phy ID #'s 32+, but when ioctls are used to
> access the phy registers, the ID is masked down to 0-0x1f, so none of them
> work properly, and mii-tool fails.
>
> The fix is to change the masking done in the top of netdev_ioctl:
> if (cmd != SIOCETHTOOL) {
> /* With SIOCETHTOOL, this would corrupt the pointer. */
> data->phy_id &= 0x3f; // was 0x1f (DA) 20021202
> data->reg_num &= 0x1f;
> }
Already fixed in the latest stable kernel, 2.4.20.
But thanks for testing though!
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