Hi steve,

my NIC is AMD 79C970 and the driver module is loaded

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, david aliata <aliatadavid@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I am running CentOs 5.5 kernel version 2.6.18 on Vmware but i cant seem to

[....]

Not sure if my leads apply to the Vmware context, but anyway...

> mii-tool brings back SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed:operation not supported

some NICs don't support mii probing, so that's not necessarily a problem.

what NIC do you have? Is the driver module loaded (lsmod)?

BR,
S

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