Stephen_Reilly at dell.com wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how to find out the speed and duplex settings of
> a network card in a Redhat 5.2 box ? They can both be set in certain network
> card module options or jumpered for others. I looked through ifconfig, dmesg
> output and the proc dir but couldn't find any reference there.
I'm not sure there is a standard way with RedHat 5.2. The very latest
version of net-tools, 1.59 last time I looked, contains a new program
called mii-tool. It can tell you exactly what your 10/100 card is doing,
force it to a particular mode of operation, or force a renegotiation.
I don't know if it works with 2.0 kernels but there's no harm in
grabbing a .src.rpm and having a go. Good luck to you finding an RPM
that isn't built with RPMv4 though. You may have to settle for raw source.
Paul.
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