Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?

[William Hooper]

On Dec 11, 2007 11:45 AM, phil prentice <philp.cheer at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks, I will try ethtool.  By the way I needed 10Mbps because I'm trying to
> communicate with an old system which only supported 10.  I just dont
> understand why one laptop works fine and the other does not and was wondering
> if there was some standard reason why this might be happening.

So you are connecting to a device that isn't a hub or switch?  Could
it be as simple as needing a crossover cable?  The one that works
might be Auto-MDX.

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William Hooper