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

[Wernher Eksteen]

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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