Network Duplex settings

[Matthew Carpenter]

Thanks.  I was most interested in the Duplex and it looks like
mii-tool as well as the options code will do this.


On Wed, 9 Oct 2002
15:34:37-0400"Wil McGilvery"<wmcgilvery at lynch.ca> wrote:

> I found this on another message board. 
> 
> Assuming we are using the eepro100 driver you need to make the
> following entries in /etc/modules.conf
> 
> alias eth0 eepro100
> options eepro100 options=0x30
> 
> The various options are:
> Hex Decimal Meaning
> 0x10 16 Force Full-Duplex operation (must be used with 0x20 or 0x40)
> 0x20 32 Force 100mbps-only operation
> 0x30 48 Force 100mbps-only with Full Duplex
> 0x40 64 Force 10mbps-only
> 0x50 80 Force 10mpps-only with Full Duplex
> 
> I also found this as well.
> 
> man mii-tool for syntax on the command, but if your device supports
> it, then 
> 
> /sbin/mii-tool -F 100BaseTx-FD eth0 
> 
> will force eth0 to 100/FD.
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