RE: link status changes forwarded to userspace?

[Leif Sawyer]

Justin Guyett [[e-mail]] responded to:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to get the link status change (e.g. eth 
>> cable inserted in card) forwarded to userspace? 
> 
> mii-tool does it (comes with net-tools).

This works great for pci-based 10/100 cards, however when I
try it on my 10-meg only ISA-3c509 (eth[0-1]) and PCI-de4x5 (eth2):

mii-diag eth[0-2]
SIOCGMIIPHY on eth[0-2] failed: operation not supported

so probably there's more to it than just using mii-diag..