How to customize hardware ethernet settings in FC5?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> you should be able to add a line to
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>>
>> ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 10 duplex half autoneg off"
>>
>> and the change will take place at boot up, or anytime you restart the
>> interface.
> That's _exactly_ the answer for which I was looking.  Unfortunately,
> it begs a couple of other questions...
> 
> 1) How did you know that?
> 2) How could I have known that?
> :-)
> 
Look at the sysconfig.txt file in initscripts directory off of
/usr/share/doc.

> 3) If I add my own text to ifcfg-eth0, will the network configuration
> GUI deal with it properly?
> 
No idea - I don't usually use the GUI tools for network configuration.

Mikkel
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