Subject: RE: NIC Speed and Duplexing
From: Jan Zumwalt (jwzumwalt@neatinfo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 13:46:00 AKST
First, I am definitely *NOT* a network guru so this is not much of a
qualified answer. But... what I remember is the hardware does the speed
switching automatically. I am unaware of any manual defeat for this feature.
The internal electronics senses a certain number of packet losses and down
shifts. My assumption is that if a 100% packet success prevails for a time,
it will attempt high gear again - no user control.
JZ
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of Dan
Wolf
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:24 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: NIC Speed and Duplexing
Hello all,
I am running Suse 8.2 (soon 9.0) on an Abit BE6 II MB with a P500. A 3Com
Fast Ethernet PCI 3C595-TX is installed. Can anyone provide a clue or
pointer to information on how to selectivly set the Speed (10 or 100) and
the Duplexing (Full or Half) for the card. The 3Com driver for Windows
permits changing these parameters but I have been unable to locate details
for doing this in Linux. I have looked through the configuration tools
included with SUSE and read the Ethernet How-To but I have not had any luck.
The system runs fine but stays at 10Mb. I have two additional systems which
I have connected to to the same switch. These systems are running Intel
eepro 10/100 cards and run at 100 full by default.
Thanks in advance!
Dan
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