Re: cannot change eth media type

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>:
> Sean Proctor wrote:
> >The switch I'm using is a little broken, so I need my ethernet cards to use
> >10baseT rather than 100base T. when I try to switch them using ifconfig, 
> >this
> >is what I get:
> >
> ># /sbin/ifconfig eth0 media 10baseT
> >port: SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported
> >
> >Does linux not support switching or is it the drivers that need to support
> >it? I've tried this with 3 different cards and it worked for none of them
> >(tulip-based, 3com 9xx, and a tulip-base PC card).
> 
> The modules might have options.
> modinfo -p <module name>
> 
> 

Try mii-tool in the mii-diag package.

HTH,
  Jeffrey