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Description of problem:
mii-tool and ethtool always worked fine with 2.4 kernel on FC1 (and
before, with old hat linux rh9/rh8/etc...). But mii-tool and ethtool
never worked so far with 2.6 kernel (my first 2.6 kernel was a
2.6.0-testX from arjan repository on people.r.c).

[root@gruyere ~]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
No data available
zsh: exit 75    ethtool eth0
[root@gruyere ~]# mii-tool
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link


Here is the lspci -vvv describing the NIC : 
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
(rev 30)
  Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC
Management NIC
  Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
  Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
  Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 2500ns max), cache line size 08
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
  Region 0: I/O ports at a800 [size=128]
  Region 1: Memory at ee800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
  Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
  Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
      Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
      Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

The driver is, of course, 3c59x kernel module.

It's annoying because network scripts wont launch dhclient if
ethtool/mii-tool say there is 'no link'. Once i patched network
scripts to ignore this, the NIC, driver, and network scripts worked
perfectly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.3-1.118smp

How reproducible: Always. With all 2.6 kernels i've tested so far.