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From: Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>
Subject: Re: setting duplex mode on ethernet cards
Date: 17 Jun 2002 14:41:51 +0100
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To: mike <ruler@isolate.net>
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Thanks, and thanks to everyone who made some suggestions.

mii-tool worked just great to tell me what I was using (100M HD) and
putting:

options 3c59x full_duplex=1

in /etc/modules.conf persuaded the card to go at 100M FD.


P.

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 20:54, mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Redhat 7.3 includes a tool called "mii-tool", found in /sbin.  Run this with
> no arguments, and it will show you what your link(s) are connected at.
> 
> Thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Furness" <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>
> To: "Linux-Admin" <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:12 AM
> Subject: setting duplex mode on ethernet cards
> 
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to find out the speed (10/100) and the
> > full/half-duplex-ness of my ethernet card?
> >
> > I thought there'd be something under /proc, but I can't find anything
> > (probably because I'm not looking hard enough).
> >
> >
> > I am running RedHat 7.3 and ximian plus all the patches I can find (it
> > was a new build, not an upgrade), and I am using a Dell Precision 340
> > which has an onboard 3C59x controller.
> >
> > My kernel version is 2.4.18-3 (as comes from RedHat) which I haven't
> > built from source - it's just running the way it came. I'll get around
> > to building a custom one sometime soon... :)
> > The main implication of this is that I am running the network driver as
> > a module, rather than compiled in directly.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Furness
> >
> > Systems Manager
> >
> > Visual Information Laboratory
> > Mitsubishi Electric ITE BV
> >
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Paul Furness

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