Network Settings on boot up

[Friedhelm Betz]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 00:04, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Andy Carse wrote:
> > Hi, Can anyone tell me how I would go about fixing the speed & duplex of
> > my network card?
> >
> > The problem that I have is that if I leave it to auto neg with the
> > switch mostly it goes wrong.
>
> Well... let's see.
> You can do it manually using mii-tool:
> % mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0
>
> You can also generally set options to the network module in
> /etc/modules.conf, typically they support things like:
> fullduplex=0 : force half duplex
> fullduplex=1 : force full duplex
> fullduplex=2 : autonegotioate
> speed100=0 : force 10Mbps
> speed100=1 : force 100Mbps
> autoneg=0 : don't autonegotiate

You can gather options in question for your specific module with
modinfo <your_module_name> 
and hope you get something useful :-)

Friedhelm