Re: disable ethernet auto-negotiation?

["Matthew Lenz" <matthew@nocturnal.org>]

its an e1000  .. according to intels website ethtool should work.. strange 
though cuz when i do an ethtool eth0 after setting the duplex (full), speed 
(1000) and autoneg (off) .. it still sez that autonegotiation is 
on..strange.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mirko Parthey" <mirko.parthey@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: "Matthew Lenz" <matthew@nocturnal.org>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: disable ethernet auto-negotiation?


> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:01:15PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote:
> > Is there a /etc/network/interfaces option to set ethernet speed/duplex 
> > and
> > disable auto-negotiation?
>
> You can use the "post-up" interface option to run a tool for setting
> the speed/duplex. Which tool? That depends. ;-)
>
> Which type of card are you using, and which driver module?
>
> One or more of the following tools may be able to help you:
> mii-tool
> mii-diag
> ethtool
> nictools-pci
> nictools-nopci
>
> Mirko
>
>
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