does lucid not have ethtool

[NoOp]

On 11/14/2010 09:15 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I was reading a book for network device driver development and it
> mentioned about methods
> ethtool_ops in include/linux/ethtool.h
> upon checking the above file I did find that method.
> At this I thought of trying some thing on my laptop and I then found
> that ethtool is not installed.
> Hence I checked http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/net/
> and I did not find ethtool even there.The bad part is on the above
> link I don't even find a search option
> I am trying to understand how NIC driver is tied to ethtool utility.
> Any pointers for that?
> 

$ apt-cache search ethtool
ifplugd - configuration daemon for ethernet devices
ethtool - display or change Ethernet device settings
$ apt-cache policy ethtool
ethtool:
  Installed: 6+20091202-1
  Candidate: 6+20091202-1
  Version table:
 *** 6+20091202-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=ethtool>
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ethtool>


$ sudo apt-get install ethtool