Re: networkcard duplex problem

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 09:07:50PM +0100, Marc Segelken wrote:
| Sorry, my previous mail was sent by accident and was not finished!
| 
| Dear All,
| 
| Maybe someone could help me with a stupid network-card problem:
| 
| A friend of mine has a Realtek 8139 ATX network card working fine up
| to now. Recent changes in their LAN now require to set the network
| card to half-duplex, which unfortunately is not detected
| automatically by the network card. 
| 
| How can I force it to half-duplex under linux? How can I force it to
| 10Mbit?

Why would you want to force it to half-duplex or 10Mbit if the other
side of the link can to full-duplex and/or 100Mbit?  That is the
purpose of the autonegotiation -- to pick the best mode supported by
both sides of the link.

-D

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