On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:14, Ward Poelmans wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
> wrote:
I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the
switch
*is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the
Linux
server at the other end is recognising the NIC and negotiating as
gigabit
speeds?
If i recall correct, you just have to take a look at the kernel log's
(dmesg): it says if it has a 100 mbps or 1 gbps link connection.
I'm not seeing that:
$ dmesg | grep 8169
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
r8169 0000:02:09.0: no PCI Express capability
eth1: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xf8634000, 00:21:27:c9:79:88, XID 10000000
IRQ 17
r8169: eth1: link up
r8169: eth1: link up
$
A grep for "100" does not show anything more useful.
I had thought [1] that `ifconfig` had a line that stated the hardware
link speed, but I can't see it now.
Stroller.
[1] My memory left over from days when I had fairly recently spent
£135 on an 8-port 100Mbps switch (not hub) and my flatmate still had a
NIC performing at 10Mbps.
