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On Sun, Oct 01 '06 at 22:09, Ian P. Christian wrote:
> Tested on identical hardware (Dell SC1425) with a non-xen kernel, it
> wroks fine.  However under Xen, this is what happens:
> 
> xen1 ~ #  ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
> No data available
> xen1 ~ # mii-tool eth0
> SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported

You're using the wrong interface. When you start the xend using the
normal config files, your real eth0 gets renamed to phy-eth0 (or so, an
ifconfig -a should tell you). 
I'm using the debian packages with my own config file, so the real eth0
is never renamed and just works fine.
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