tags 538042 +confirmed
thanks

On Wednesday 22 Jul 2009 22:12:21 Markus Grunwald wrote:
> Pointing config file /etc/syslog.conf to /etc/syslog.conf-nolm-ac.
> SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
> SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
>   No MII transceiver present!.
> [: 89: ethtool:: unexpected operator
> [: 89: Cannot: unexpected operator
> SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not supported
> [: 89: Cannot: unexpected operator
> [: 89: ethtool:: unexpected operator
> Following symlink from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hda.
> Polling is already disabled on the given drive.
>
> This might be a duplicate of 535650 but I don't think so: it should be
> fixed in 1.49. The error seems to come from this call to ethtool:
>
> mar...@haktar:~$ sudo ethtool -s eth0 speed 0
> ethtool: bad command line argument(s)
> For more information run ethtool -h
>
> This bug might be related to ethtool, but such errors should be handeled
> more graciously...
>


Thanks for reporting it. The error appears for NIC drivers which don't respond 
to mii-tool. And yes, the error should be handled.

Ritesh
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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