[newbie] setting a 10/100 NIC 's speed

2002-05-02 Thread Hanan Shargi

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to manually set the NIC's card speed like in Windows ? 
I have a 10/100 ethernet PCMCI card and I dont want it to connect withe the 
100 speed, where can I set this ??

Regards.

-
Hanan AL-Shargi




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Re: [newbie] setting a 10/100 NIC 's speed

2002-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings

On Thursday 02 May 2002 2:19 pm, Hanan Shargi wrote:
 Hello everyone,

 Is it possible to manually set the NIC's card speed like in Windows ?
 I have a 10/100 ethernet PCMCI card and I dont want it to connect withe the
 100 speed, where can I set this ??

 Regards.

 -
 Hanan AL-Shargi

There is a 'media type' parameter in the iwconfig command. See 'man iwconfig'

Not all drivers support it however. Usually the card will auto detect the 
rate. So if you can force your hub or whatever it is connected to, to 10Mbps 
then the pcmcia card will follow suit.

derek



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