Does ubuntu has intel 1G/bits wire Ethernet driver?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:10 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 22:54, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>>
>> ethtool is deprecated.  No harm in installing it, but it will not work with
>> all Ethernet devices/drivers.  Use mii-tool instead (which should already be
>> installed by default.)
>
> Since when?  Every Ubuntu system I have has both mii-tool and ethtool
> installed...
>
> And mii-tool is quite a bit older than ethtool is.
>
> Not that I really want to get into a "emacs/vi" debate about ethtool
> or mii-tool, but where did you get your info that ethtool was being
> deprecated by a far older tool?
>
> Even the Linux Foundation said that mii-tool was obsoleted by ethtool:
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/net-tools

+1

Although depending on the hardware, mii-tool seems to perform better.