On Tuesday 09 September 2008 18:18, John R Pierce wrote:
Either way, ethtool should show you detected and current link states on the connection ;
That is not always the case. I cannot get ethtool to work.
~ $ /sbin/ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: No data available
And yes I have eth0 up and running.
were you logged on as root? ('$' tends to imply you were not)...
sudo'er. Never log into root unless it really really have to.
$ /usr/sbin/ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Cannot get device settings: Operation not permitted Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted Cannot get message level: Operation not permitted Cannot get link status: Operation not permitted No data available
Compare what you got to what I posted. You will see that you got 'Operation not permitted' Where I got 'No data available'