Half Duplex

[Tom Morgan]

What I ended up doing was downloading ethtool which
allowed me to change the duplex on this nic.
--- "Mark T. Valites" <valites at geneseo.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tom Morgan wrote:
> 
> > I have a Dell Poweedge 1500 running RH7.3 I am
> trying
> > to hard code the nic to 100 Mbps Full Duplex. I
> tried
> > to use mii-tool but i am being told this:
> >
> > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not
> supported
> > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not
> supported
> > no MII interfaces found
> >
> > I beleive I am being told my nic doesnt support
> > mii-tool.
> >
> > Can someone tell me if there is another way to do
> this
> > without mii-tool.
> 
> Try dropping something like this into your
> modules.conf (with appropriate
> substituions):
> 
> alias eth0 e1000
> options eth0 Speed=100
> add options eth0 Duplex=2
> 
> I know the intel e1000 driver source has the how-to
> in it.  You may also
> want to check the dell linux lists at:
> 
> http://lists.us.dell.com
> 
> They are by far the best source of help for your
> dell hardware.
> 
> -- 
> Mark T. Valites
> Unix Systems Analyst
> CIT - SUNY Geneseo
> >--))> >--))>
> 


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