This is tool to read and write MII registers from ethernet physicals under linux. It has been tested with Realtek and Marvell PHY's connected via PCIe and should work with all drivers implementing the mdio ioctls.
mdio-tool comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; Use with care!
Syntax: mdio-tool [r/w/er/ew] [mmd] [val]
Operation: r: read register w: write register er: read register from extended reg space ew: write register from extended reg space dev: as in 'eth0' mmd: for 'er' and 'ew' operations, specify the MDIO's Manageable Device reg: the register's address to read from/write to val: the value to write in the register ./mdio-tool w eth0 0x10 0x0 ./mdio-tool r eth0 0x0 ./mdio-tool er eth0 0x1F 0x0460 ./mdio-tool ew eth0 0x1F 0x0460 0x02 
