Re: joy!

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Wednesday 27 November 2002 17:51, Tim Verry wrote:
> I really should have subscribed to this list a long time ago.  Thanks again
> everyone for the help.  I've been playing with this Debian box for a little
> over a month now.  I have really gotten frusterated at times, but feel like
> I'm on top of the world today.
>
> Not only did I get my eth0 loading at boot, but while I was in there
> messing around I got the tlan module loaded to, and now both my nics work! 
> I really hope to use this linux server as a nat/firewall.  I was even able
> to rearrange the order in /etc/modules so my better nic is still eth0, and
> my smbfs mount is working great.
>
> How do I tell the tlan nic (compaq netflex 3 on mb) to go to 100 instead of
> 10?  I'm not sure it's possible, I know there were some models of compaq
> 4000 desktops that would NOT do 100 under windows no matter what you did.
>
> Also, when I had the 3c59x nic accidently loading as eth1, the mac address
> was showing up as ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.  It seemed to work oddly enough.  What
> would I do to try to fix that?

mii-tool is what you need.

David