Gigabit NIC configuration

[Yang Xiao]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:27:40 -0500, manoj singh <mksingh at scientist.com> wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I would like to set speed and other attribute of second Gigabit NIC. When i do following
> 
> [root at brahma ZTS]# /sbin/ethtool eth1
> Then following message appear
> 
> Settings for eth1:
> No data available
> 
> When i performed following
> 
> [root at brahma ZTS]# /sbin/ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000
> Then following message appear
> Cannot get current device settings: Operation not supported
>  not setting speed
> 
> Although my this Gigabit NIC card working perfectly. But i would like to set some attribute of this NIC.
> 
> Any Help is highly appreciated.
> 
> Thank
> 
> I am
> Manoj

What kind of NIC is it? if it's Intel gig card, add the following line
in the /etc/modprobe.conf
options e1000 Duplex=2 Speed=1000

assuming you have the line "alias eth1 e1000" already.

and are you sure it's eth1 not eth0? the error you reported doesn't
look like there is card there.

Yang