Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-11 Thread john boris
Well my problem was solved today. I found out when our NOC was redone the new switches (HP Pro curves) were set to 100 mb Full Duplex since the switch they replaced was a 3Com that was 10/100 with only 2 1000mb ports and a fiber connection, so my server was set to 100mb and auto negotiation under t

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan
Hi It looks like this is a Broadcom NIC. Does your Linux distro recognise the exact card. If not, I am guessing it might not let you set the options you want. Which is where I come back to my original suggestion of leaving it at a default auto-negotiate, and getting the switch at the far en

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread John Stoffel
john> sudo mii-tool -v -F 1000baseTx-HD eth0 john> gives me this error john> Invalid media specification '1000baseTx-HD'. That makes me think that this server only has 100Mbit ethernet, not GigE at all. As Brandon says, try the 'sudo mii-tool -v' and see what it says. It might also be fixed b

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:23 PM, john boris wrote: > John > sudo mii-tool -v -F 1000baseTx-HD eth0 > They did say "something like"; use "sudo mii-tool -v" to check what media types are available and what that card calls them. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread john boris
John sudo mii-tool -v -F 1000baseTx-HD eth0 gives me this error Invalid media specification '1000baseTx-HD'. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:07 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > > Hmm.. I just remembered about the mii-tool and mii-diag programs. > Have you tried using them as well? It works well on my home

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread David Lang
: "tech@lists.lopsa.org" Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04 Robert, Well I will be honest I am not sure how to set the ethtool settings back to default. It seems the NIC doesn't like any commands I give it. I tried sudo etht

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Yes, I caught the command failure from another email. That is going to be an issue. :) Also, doing a re-negotiation on a port where the switch has negotiations turned off will have some problems... :P BTW, a failed negotiation goes to 100Mb Half-Duplex by default. So, if the switch is set t

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread John Stoffel
Hmm.. I just remembered about the mii-tool and mii-diag programs. Have you tried using them as well? It works well on my home machine, admittedly running newer hardware and newer OS, Debian 7. > sudo mii-tool -v eth0: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok product info: vendor 00:07:32,

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Will Dennis
See the lines in the "ethtool eth0" output where it says: Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Half That indicates that the NIC is autonegotiating the lowest common denominator between the switchport and the server's NIC - almost always because autoneg is failing due to the fact that one sid

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2014-02-06 at 15:08 -0500, john boris wrote: > I am running ubuntu 10.04 LTS on an HP Proliant DL180GS and the NIC is a > NC105 card. I have been trying to change the settings of the card using > ethtool to 1000baseT Full duplex but get the following errors My recollection is that mii-tool(8)

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread john boris
Robert, Well I will be honest I am not sure how to set the ethtool settings back to default. It seems the NIC doesn't like any commands I give it. I tried sudo ethtool -r eth0 to restart the negotiation and that did not help. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > First

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread john boris
John and Jonathan, Well no matter what I try I get errors like this sudo ethtool -s eth0 duplex full Cannot set new settings: Invalid argument not setting duplex So the driver will not talk to the card to change settings. I just got off the phone with HP with no help but I may have to reboot

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
First clear all of the ethtool settings back to their default. GigE to GigE autonegotiations work just fine. Even across vendors. Auto-neg was designed into the protocol from the start. The 100Base-T and lower specs had N-Way autonegotiation tagged on after the fact and so had quite a few c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread John Stoffel
john> First thanks for the reply. Not a problem, NIC problems can be a total pain! john> Where the server sits the NOC had an upgrade and they went to john> all new gigabit switches. So when I try to do any transfers from john> this server (or from any of the VMs on the server) I get speeds john

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan
Hi If the NOC is friendly, can they fix the problem at their end? If they can set the switch port to AUTO at 1Gbps only, your HP NIC will likely sort itself out. Jonathan. On 06/02/14 20:31, john boris wrote: First thanks for the reply. Where the server sits the NOC had an upgrade and they

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread John Stoffel
John, I thought GigE was already full duplex by default? After all the horrors of the old sun HME card gettings 100 Full/Half duplex borked with Cisco switches. I can't remember the last time I had to muck with GigE like that. Have you also checked the other end of the link to see what the swi

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread john boris
First thanks for the reply. Where the server sits the NOC had an upgrade and they went to all new gigabit switches. So when I try to do any transfers from this server (or from any of the VMs on the server) I get speeds that make a 56K modem look like lightspeed. The server is not overloaded as ther