mii-tool and dsl?

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Jay Daniels wrote:

> I have dual builtin Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigait Ethernet Controller.
> My hub is 10 Mbit, but both the DSL eth0 and the hub eth1 show 10
> Mbit.  It seems I remember the DSL link eth0 showing as 100 Mbit with
> RH 9.
>                                                                                 
> What should the DSL side be set to?  I assume 10 Mbit would cover my
> slow DSL connection.
>                                                                                 
> After running the mii-tool -v -F 100baseT-HD eth0 the link died.
>                                                                                 
> Before running mii-tool I got:
> eth0: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok
> eth1: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok
>                                                                                 
> So I mii-tool -v -F 10baseT-HD on each link
> # mii-tool
> eth0: 10 Mbit, full duplex, link ok
> eth1: 10 Mbit, full duplex, link ok
>                                                                                 
> Is this correct?  How do make it permanent?

If your hub is only 10Mbit, you'll never see anything faster than that.  
You simply can't make a card talk 100Mbit to a 10Mbit hub.

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