Network Settings on boot up

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Andy Carse wrote:
> Hi, Can anyone tell me how I would go about fixing the speed & duplex of
> my network card?
> 
> The problem that I have is that if I leave it to auto neg with the
> switch mostly it goes wrong.

Well... let's see.
You can do it manually using mii-tool:
% mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0

You can also generally set options to the network module in 
/etc/modules.conf, typically they support things like:
fullduplex=0 : force half duplex
fullduplex=1 : force full duplex
fullduplex=2 : autonegotioate
speed100=0 : force 10Mbps
speed100=1 : force 100Mbps
autoneg=0 : don't autonegotiate