-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/10 4:28 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > I noticed that ethtool is not in the default install anymore (probably > for a release or so, but I didn't notice it until now). Why is that? > It is the only tool that can show and configure a variety of network > device options, such as speed/duplex negotiation, wake-on-LAN, and TCP > offloading. There is support in the ifcfg-eth* files for calling it as > part of interface setup (don't know if that's carried forward to NM, > should be considered a bug in NM if not). > > Is there a replacement that I'm not aware of? > > I have run into flakey switches and such where you have to force > speed/duplex to communicate (yes, such switches are crap, but when it > isn't your network, you don't get to choose). Not having a tool to do > that already installed makes it impossible to fix. Looking at comps, it seems ethtool was never listed, so it must have been pulled in as a dep of something (if it ever was installed by default). I'd say look at your older systems and see what, if anything, requires ethtool. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky08rAACgkQ4v2HLvE71NUV5ACgjimTcwkMIfjmV5psXQ56PqYl 1pwAnjkksjdtGQchxySmYhF4iEbOHiHx =R2u9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
