NIC card problems

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Wed Jun 15 16:27:53 UTC 2005


Will McDonald wrote:
> On 6/15/05, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
>>This server has dual NIC cards (Intel Corp. 82541 GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet
>>Controller)
>>
>>I set both up, but they don't seem to be working properly. The minihub
>>they are plugged into indicated they are running at 10 mbps. 
> 
> 
> Have you looked at the output of...
> 
> ethtool eth0
> ethtool eth1
> mii-tool
> /sbin/ifconfig -a
> netstat -rn
> 
> The cards could be negotiating the wrong link speed/duplex settings
> with the hub. If your mini hub only supports 10MBit/Half-duplex then
> try fixing the cards at that speed.
> 
> Will.
> 

How do I fix the card speed?

Bill




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