RE: [PLUG] How do you set a NIC to only be 10mbs in Linux?

["George Gallen" <ggallen@slackinc.com>]

The cards I have are 3com 3c996B-T at least as reported in the /proc info file

and they are using the boardcom bcm5700 drivers.

 

Any here using this combo? (it's on a Xeon based motherboard)

 

George

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:12 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: RE: [PLUG] How do you set a NIC to only be 10mbs in Linux?

SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not supported

 

is what I get from mii-tool on that particular NIC (or any of the 3 others of that type card).

 

George

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Henry Umansky
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:43 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] How do you set a NIC to only be 10mbs in Linux?

You didn't really get into much details with the problems you are having, I guess you are having trouble connecting to your hub, switch, router, etc.  If thats the case, then try this command:

mii-tool -F 10baseTx ethX

replace ethX with your NIC interface (eth0, eth1, etc).  You might also need to change the duplex to half duplex to prevent collisions.  If thats the case replace "10baseTx" with "10baseTx-HD".  Also make sure you don't have any other media connected to your hub, switch, etc that is 100 mbps full duplex, otherwise you will see a lot of collisions.  If this doesn't work, describe your problem in a little more detail.

-Henry

 

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