ifcfg-eth0 file # MYSON Technology Inc SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:40:95:78:1E:B7 ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.0.0 IPADDR=172.19.1.42 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Ethernet GATEWAY=192.168.1.11 ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg off speed 100 duplex full" [root@gateway ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 10Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: MII PHYAD: 32 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Current message level: 0x00000000 (0) Link detected: no [root@gateway ~]# mii-tool eth0 eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link I have checked the cable connection, LEDs ..everything is okay. How to change the speed 10Mbps to 100Mbps I have mounted Novle Netware volumes to this machine using "ncpmount command' <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Mike Wright <<a href="mailto:mike.wright@mailinator.com">mike.wright@mailinator.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Gene Heskett wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Saturday 12 September 2009, sureshbabu ct wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a Fedora-5 machine.. with two LAN (RTL 8139 c) cards. machine is being used for internet sharing .(proxy) In that, one LAN card is connected to local area connection and another one is connected to a Broad-band internet connection, while using this command mii-tool eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link how to change this to full duplex. I have added this line in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, after that also it is not changing........plz help me... OOTPROTO=none </blockquote> What is this OOTPROTO thing? You are missing the B that makes it BOOTPROTO, and I have no idea what none is supposed to do, static and dhcp are the 2 common arguments there. </blockquote> </div> Hi, Gene. I ranted about this a couple years back. The documentation is explicit; however, static is so widely misused that it is now tested for and set to none. Static is not a boot protocol period punto final. Here's the thread (you may notice a few recognizable denizens;) <a href="http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-11/msg02711.html" target="_blank">http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-11/msg02711.html</a> About half way down look for "The Official RedHat Linux Reference Guide Chapter 12. Network Scripts"<div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> HWADDR=00:40:95:78:1E:B7 ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.0.0 IPADDR=172.19.1.42 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Ethernet GATEWAY=192.168.1.11 *ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full* -- </blockquote> </blockquote> -- </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- (Ј`З.ЗДЈ) with `З.И(Ј`З.ЗДЈ) Luv (Ј`З.ЗДЈ)И.ЗД Suresh Vellinezhi. `З.И.ЗД