On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Nate Straz wrote: > I would trust mii-tool over dmesg. mii-tool tells you the current > status of the link. dmesg just shows you the kernel message buffer, so > you don't really know how old the message is until you look it up in > /var/log/message (or equiv). Better yet: ethtool! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------