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From: "Cokey de Percin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: [RHL] Re: Still having a NIC problem
> Mike Rambo wrote:
> >
> > Rachel Collins wrote:
> > >Do you know of any way to set the negotiation manually so that it
forces it
> > >to start at 10 or 100, or at full or half duplex? The computer is dual
> > >booting to Win2k so I know the card is functional, and I can't find any
> > >utilities on the driver disk that appear useful.
> >
> [big snip]
>
> I don't have any experience with PCMCIA devices, but for PCI/ISA network
> devices, you can force the negotiation with device options in the
> /etc/conf.modules. For a 3Com card, this would look like this:
>
> alias eth0 3c59x
> options eth0 full_duplex=1
>
> The options syntax depend on the device driver. I suggest you look in
> the source code to see what, if any, options there are. I know you can
> do this for a PCMCIA card, but I'm not sure if /etc/conf.modules is the
> right place for it. Note that you should not have to force the card
> as it will negotiate with the connecting device as to speed/duplex and
> I believe (could be wrong...) that the negotiation start high and works
> down, i.e. 100/full -> 10.
>
> Best
>
> Cokey
>
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