I'm pretty sure, actually, that mii-tool will work teh 3c905 series...won't work with the 3c509 series, unfortunately.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > Espiritu, Alice M wrote: > > >I have been trying to force 3c905b to full duplex. (yes I know that > >autonegotion in recommended but our network people set all the switches to > >100 full duplex). > > > >This is what I tried > > > >in my modules.conf I have a line stating > > > > alias eth0 3c90x option full_duplex=1 media_select=5 > > > >I still get half duplex > > > >if have tryed using vortex_diag but it appears that I am not using the > >correct calls. > > > >Does anyone have a suggestion? > > > > > > If vortex_diag is like the rest of Becker's stuff you really need to > look at the source to figure out how it works. Have you tried mii-tool? > (It should be part of net-tools in 7.2-8.0) I'm not sure if the 3c905b > uses the mii interface, but it couldn't hurt to try. > > [root@sflory linux-2.4.18-14]# mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0 > [root@sflory linux-2.4.18-14]# mii-tool eth0 > eth0: 100 Mbit, full duplex, link ok > > > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
