On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 02:57, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > > > I've been searching for this, and seem to find the answer. I have a > > > box > > > with a realtek controller. The network is working, but some of our > > > clients with this box need to force the speed and duplex to make > > > their > > > switches happy. Can somebody give me some pointers on setting this > > > at boot time? > > > > > > Here's the relevant output of lspci: > > > > > > > > > 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > > RTL-8139 (rev 10) > > > Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139 > > > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- > > > ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- > > > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium > > > >TAbort- > > > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > > > Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max) > > > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 > > > Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256] > > > Region 1: Memory at efdfff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) > > > [size=256] > > > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > > > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA > > > PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) > > > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > > > > Perhaps mii-tool from the net-tools package might help you... > > > > To set the speed automagically once the network starts up I personally > > use this on my RTL-8139: > > > > ,----[ cat /etc/network/interfaces ] > > | [...] > > | auto eth0 > > | iface eth0 inet static > > | address 192.168.0.1 > > | netmask 255.255.255.0 > > | up mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0 > > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > `---- > > > > Or, if you have a 2.4 kernel, you can use ethtool as Greg suggested. > > > > Thanks for the suggestions, but they are not working. The Realtek keeps > trying to auto negotiate. Does anybody have any other ideas? > > I use ethtool for my realtek. replace the mii-tool in the previous sugestion with up ethtool -s eth0 speed <...> duplex <...> autoneg off
The autoneg part is needed since otherwise it will reset. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
