does lucid not have ethtool

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 15 06:00:28 UTC 2010


On 11/14/2010 09:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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

Sorry, forgot to add:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html






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