mii-tool : no MII Interfaces found

[victvishwa]

Hi ,

I m running Redhat EL 5, on Vmware workstation 6.

I get an error when i run # mii-tool

SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed : Operation not supported

no MII Interfaces found.

I tried mii-diag, ethtool eth0.

Can someone give me a hand on thtis?

Output of lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)

00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc PCI Display Adapter

00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01)

00:11.0 PCI bridge: VMware Inc Unknown device 0790 (rev 01)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices 79c970 (rev 10)

02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 02)

02:02.0 USB Controller: VMware Inc Unknown device 0770

output of /etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 vmnics

alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase

alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptspi

alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371

options snd-card-0 index=0

options snd-ens1371 index=0

remove snd-ens1371 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371

1. Added by VMware Tools

install pcnet32 /sbin/modprobe -q --ignore-install vmxnet;/sbin/modprobe -q --ignore-install pcnet32 $CMDLINE_OPTS;/bin/true

alias char-major-14 es1371

Smiles

Kasi VPS

[dconvery]

Try installing VMware tools. It should load all of the drivers for you. Then ethtool should work.

[victvishwa]

Hi ,

I have installed the Vmware tools already

Smiles

Kasi VPS