Adjust NIC settings? [Archive]

weezle

01-28-2003, 12:36 PM

Seeking help with NIC setting...is it possible to tweak an Intel ethernet pro 100 (82557) adapter on a RH box (kernel 2.2.12-20) without using the GUI interface?

Ifconfig doesn't show duplex-mode.

Thanks!

MattCauth

01-29-2003, 12:31 AM

By far the easiest way is to this: go get a killer utility called mii-diag. It's free and you'll find it very useful for your network configs.

http://www.scyld.com/diag

Here you'll find the source (make sure and compile it with libmii.c as well) to build the util yourself. Don't worry if you've not compiled C before, just view the bottom of the source code and the compile directions are there.

Once built, you can use this util to check the status of your link parter's negotiation, as well as your own. You can set your duplex too, with the -F flag. Simple.

mii-diag -h will dump the help section. I use this all the time and swear by it. Much more easy than messing aound with module params.
HTH,
Matt