Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Some hardware simply *can't* easily do this.  Some drivers are really
> stale and haven't been updated:
> 
> * dnet only does link state reporting on certain cards (this with MII
> transceivers)
> * pcelx and elx don't do this at all

Thanks; I forgot about the elx problem.

> So, there are exceptions.  But *most* drivers in ON (and certainly
> anything for hardware you bought in the past year or three) will work.

It'll probably be a bit hard to find hardware that runs into those
exceptions ... and also hard to find hardware to test any fixes to those
drivers.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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