[GLUG-tech] setting nic to auto (detect speed)

[Mike Kenny]

Thanks guys - mii-tool appears to be what I need

On 5/12/06, Wernher Eksteen <cryptixd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD ethn ( where n is the nr of your device ex: eth0)
>
> This will force it to go 100 full duplex, else do man mii-tool for
> your requirement.
>
> Wernher
>
> On 5/12/06, Mike Kenny <inzanix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Using Ubuntu 5.10
> >
> > I am using a 100Mb NIC and my local network is not great. The network
> > guys have had a look and say that they have set the switch to auto and
> > that if I change my NIC from 100Mb to auto I should see considerable
> > improvements. The man page and help for ifconfig indicate that
> > changing this setting is supported. But no matter waht sequence of
> > options and paramters I provide on the command line it seems to
> > interpreting the text media and/or auto as hostnames, with the
> > expected results.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me how to change this setting?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > mike
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