10/100 ethernet settings

Andrew Konosky TerranAce007 at comcast.net
Mon Aug 2 18:27:33 UTC 2004


Bob Chiodini wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 12:11, Andrew Konosky wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a home network with 2 computers on a linksys router with linksys 
>>NICs. Under windows 98 I had to manually configure it to use 100mbps 
>>since it defaukted to 10. The router's LED to my computer is yellow, 
>>which means it's at 10mbps right now. How do I configure Fedora to use 
>>100mbps also?
>>    
>>
>
>Andrew,
>
>mii-tool eth0 should tell you what the cards defaulted to.  mii-tool can
>also change the current states for speed and duplex.  See the man page.
>
>You did not say what chipset was on the linksys card, but module
>parameters probably exist that can be added as options to modules.conf
>(FC1) or modprobe.conf (FC2). Look in
>/usr/src/linux-kernel-rev/Documentation.
>
>I would have thought that the cards and router would have played
>together better.  During my short stint with Linksys equipment
>autonegotiation worked pretty well.
>
>Bob...
>  
>
Okay, I used mii-tool and it was set to 10mbit full-duplex, and I 
changed it to 100baseTx-FD and now it's at 100mbit full-duplex.

Thanks!





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