Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Dec 11 14:09:51 UTC 2007
phil prentice wrote:
> Hi
> I have got two laptops. If I connect one of them up to a 10mbs ethernet
> connection; it recognises the connection immediately and I can happily
> transfer files immediately. However my second laptop just will not work at
> 10Mbs. 100Mbs is not aproblem, but 10Mbps is simply not recognised.
> Initially I thought it might be the on-board network card, so I bought a
> netgear FA511 adaptor in the hope that that would work ok. It has exactly
> the same problem. Both the laptops are running Fedora-6 ( I would update the
> failing one if I thought that it would make a difference). The failing
> laptop simply does not see the 10Mbs signal.
>
> The laptop that works has a Broadcom coporation BCM4401-B0 adaptor. I tryed
> the failing laptop with the onboard SIS900 PCI fast ethernet adaptor and the
> netgear 10/1000 mbps fast ethernet adaptor (FA511). Both refuse to detect
> 10Mbps. I tryed setting the speed directly, but it did not seem to help
> (mii-tool). Has anyone got any ideas as to why this laptop does not detect
> 10Mbps (100Mbps is fine) or what I might try to fix the problem. I cant
> really believe that both these adaptors would fail especially the netgear
> one.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Phil
>
You may want try ethtool instead of mii-tool and see if that works.
Mikkel
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