Configure network card for 1Gbps

Bill Medland billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
Mon Jun 12 20:36:32 UTC 2006


Thanks.

And as a result I find that it was the Windows machine that 
hadn't autonegotiated up; the Linux machine already had.
Score 1 for Linux

On June 12, 2006 12:27 pm, Scott Ruckh wrote:
> --
> This is what you said Bill Medland
>
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of appropriate
> > documentation please?
> >
> > I have a Dell Optiplex GX270 with an Intel 8254OEM network
> > card, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
> >
> > Can I configure the network card to operate in 1Gbps mode
> > rather than 100Mbps?
> >
> > --
> > Bill Medland
> > mailto:billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
>
>  you might try 'man ethtool'
>
> also mii-tool on some systems, but I do not believe so on
> yours.
>
> Of course your kernel driver must support GB for your adapter.

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Bill Medland
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