Forcing Full-Duplex on e100 FC2?

[Andre ten Bohmer]

Hello

> I have searched the archives and found nothing, so please forgive me if
> this has already been answered.
> 
> I am trying to get my NIC to force to Full Duplex.  All google seems to
> tell me to do is to make changes to /etc/modules.conf.
Part of the net-tools rpm is /sbin/mii-tool (mii-tool --help). You could 
use "#] mii-tool -F 100basetx-FD eth0" instead.

Cheers,
Andre

> Perhaps I have gone insane, but I don't even see any such file in /etc.
> 
> I am running kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
> 
> dmesg reports the following:
> 
> ...
> e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
> e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdfeff000, irq 10, MAC addr
> 00:04:23:06:5F:C6
> divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
> e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdfeff000, irq 10, MAC addr
> 00:04:23:06:5F:C6
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, half-duplex
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> ...
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Adam Killian
> akillian at footlocker.com
> 
>