I want to force 1/2 duplex from my network card. How?

[Jeff Vian]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>>you will be presented some basic description and the allowed parameters.
>>>>Combining all the above info, you can infer what this entry on my
>>>>/etc/modules.conf does:
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>>>OK, but as it turns out, there are no modules for this card. I do have a 
>>>second card in there, a 3com501, and Kudzu won't even recognize it. I 
>>>believe there's a big bug to swat for that one in bugzilla. Anyway...
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>>>>options nvnet duplex=2 > 
>>>>(answer: it is saying that nvnet modules should be loaded with
>>>>param 'duplex' set to 2, which means full-duplex on my case).
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>>>>TIP: do a 'man modprobe'.
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>>>Yep. Unfortunately, I don't have any modules for it, and I don't know 
>>>where to get one.
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>>There is a module loaded for it, or it would not work.
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>>Post the output of lsmod and we can help identify it for you.
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>OK. Here it is:
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>Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
>emu10k1                67368   0  (autoclean)
>ac97_codec             16744   0  (autoclean) [emu10k1]
>sound                  72276   0  (autoclean) [emu10k1]
>soundcore               6468   7  (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
>parport_pc             18756   1  (autoclean)
>lp                      8580   0  (autoclean)
>parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
>ide-cd                 34432   0  (autoclean)
>cdrom                  34592   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
>autofs                 12084   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>e1000                  71232   1
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^^^^^^^^
This is a driver for an
        description: "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver"
       author:      "Intel Corporation, <linux.nics at intel.com>"
as shown by "modinfo e1000"

If that is your card, then work with that one to set the parameters you 
need.

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