The patch titled ethtool always report port is TP on tg3 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ethtool-always-report-port-is-tp-on-tg3.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@xxxxxxx> Even with fiber cards ethtool reports that the connected port is TP, the patch fix this. Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/tg3.c~ethtool-always-report-port-is-tp-on-tg3 drivers/net/tg3.c --- devel/drivers/net/tg3.c~ethtool-always-report-port-is-tp-on-tg3 2006-05-12 11:33:12.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/net/tg3.c 2006-05-12 11:33:12.000000000 -0700 @@ -7653,21 +7653,23 @@ static int tg3_get_settings(struct net_d cmd->supported |= (SUPPORTED_1000baseT_Half | SUPPORTED_1000baseT_Full); - if (!(tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_ANY_SERDES)) + if (!(tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_ANY_SERDES)) { cmd->supported |= (SUPPORTED_100baseT_Half | SUPPORTED_100baseT_Full | SUPPORTED_10baseT_Half | SUPPORTED_10baseT_Full | SUPPORTED_MII); - else + cmd->port = PORT_TP; + } else { cmd->supported |= SUPPORTED_FIBRE; + cmd->port = PORT_FIBRE; + } cmd->advertising = tp->link_config.advertising; if (netif_running(dev)) { cmd->speed = tp->link_config.active_speed; cmd->duplex = tp->link_config.active_duplex; } - cmd->port = 0; cmd->phy_address = PHY_ADDR; cmd->transceiver = 0; cmd->autoneg = tp->link_config.autoneg; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kkeil@xxxxxxx are fix-capi-reload-by-unregistering-the-correct-major.patch ethtool-always-report-port-is-tp-on-tg3.patch i4l-memory-leak-fix-for-sc_ioctl.patch isdn-unsafe-interaction-between-isdn_write-and-isdn_writebuf_stub.patch use-list_add_tail-instead-of-list_add.patch use-list_add_tail-instead-of-list_add-fix.patch capi-crash--race-condition.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html