Joe Grace wrote:
Ok, I am going crazy because I have not been able to figure this
out. I have googled this like crazy. I have a dsl modem that is
connected directly to an ethernet card. I can not figure out how
to manually set the duplex and speed. In the past I have used mii-
tool, but when I try to use it, it will say "no mii transceivers
found". In my google searches I found that there were some people
who were using ethtool. When I try setting the duplex and speed
with ethtool it does not display a word when I press return and
then duplex and speed stay the same, even after bringing the
interface down and up. For some reason with this card auto-
negotation is very slow. Can someone point me in the right
direction? Can I set the duplex and speed in /etc/ network/
interfaces somewhere on the "auto eth0" line?
Please identified the NIC and driver for a more complete response.
Some old drivers use lilo boot command line parameters, but I don't
know if that works for PCI NICs. Moreover if you are using
modules, you
can usually set some port parameters while loading with insmod.
They're probably documented somewhere for each driver, but if you
know C
then just take a look at the comments in the driver source for
details.
If all else fails and you are compiling your driver, you may find some
# macros to comment in or out to force various port settings. As a
last
resort just hard code the port settings.
Thanks a bunch!
Joe
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