[ILUG] speed/duplex settings

[John Malone]

I noticed the other day that /var/log/messages told me what the state of
the network card was when the module was inserted. Not a 5.2 box (7.1??)
but worth a look.

John

* At 10:01, Stephen_Reilly at dell.com wrote:
> 
> 	Thanks for the response Paul. However, does anybody know a method
> short of installing new things on the box of finding out the speed and
> duplex settings of a Network Card (RH5.2)?
> 
> steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kelly [mailto:longword at esatclear.ie]
> Sent: 09 May 2001 19:22
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] speed/duplex settings
> 
> 
> 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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