Dear All,
I have an intel gigabit ethernet card. When I install it on windows with the
coming windows drivers, I can click on network connections select the card and
change stuff like jumbo frames, "Receive descriptors" and "Interupt Moderate
Rate". Now I have also a linux machine with debian 4.0 and kernal 2.6. When I
plug in the card it seems that there are debian drivers already that comes
along with debian installation. I can then set it to jumbo frames by setting
the mtu value. But I have no clue how I should set the "receive descriptors"
and "Interupt Moderate Rate" value in linux. I have had a look at the intel
site and saw some drivers there too. I am a bit confused actually. Does it mean
that I need the intel drivers for linux in order to set all these special
features ? Or does the driver that comes along with the debian installation CD
includes these features. I am quite new in linux, so I have no clue what I am
suppose to do. The only thing I know to do in linux is by
using ifconfig. How can I check if I need to specifically install the intel
drivers ? How do I check if I can set the "special" feature using the driver
that comes along with debian. How do I chekc what driver is it used and what
funcitonalities can be set ? Please help me out as I need to set those
features. Thanks in advance for helping me out.
cheers.
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