I hope I understand your question. Donald Becker's web site has a few utilities, 'mdiag' is one, that let you manually set the speed. It worked for my pcmcia EEpro, but it does not work for all cards.
*Tim Sailer wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting > it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: > > I have a rack of 20 machines needing to talk to a Pix firewall with > gigbit interfaces on it. To do this, we set up a test rig using an Alteon > switch with 1 gigabit interface and 24 100bT ports for the boxes. > When we run in this mode, everything performs well. Now, we switch this > over to the Cr^Hisco switch, and it all goes to hell. It seems like the > 6509 doesn't negotiate with the EEPro100 NICs in the linux boxes. Errors > out the butt, and the switch ports claim that they are talking 10/half > when they should be talking 100/full. > > I've looked at the NIC driver source, but it's non-obvious, to me anyway, > how to lock these puppies in 100/full. Any pointers? > > Thanks, > Tim > > -- > (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://www.buoy.com/~tps > I have never found that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. > ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my > own.** > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
