>If you are looking for location-dependant network settings, look at >intuitively (available in woody). > >If you are looking for ethernet hardware config such as speed and/or >duplex state, search the archives of this list or of linuxppc-dev; there >has been some talk about that issue lately. IIRC, there have been some >mods by BenH to make the GMAC driver compatible with ethtool and/or >miitool.
Not gmac, but sungem, which will replace gmac soon. However, there is a problem with using such tools. For power management reasons, I shut down the chip when the interface is closed (gmac) or a couple of seconds after it is closed (sungem). So you can't use ethtool to get the link state. Ben.
