On-board ethernet - VT6102 Rhine-II - and slow connection
jludwig
wralphie at comcast.net
Sun Mar 5 18:30:01 UTC 2006
On Sunday 05 March 2006 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 05 March 2006 17:45, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > That adapter has 4 possible connection states 10/100MiB and half/full
> > duplex. Obviously the fastest would be 100 full.
> >
> > What is it actually connected as? Usually the leds on the switch or the
> > adapter will tell you the speed, but I have not seen any tools to check
> > the actual state from the OS.
> >
> > I have never had any problems with any NIC using the via-rhine chipset,
> > but YMMV
>
> OK, that's reassuring. I can't check it right now, but I'm intending a new
> install after the rebuild. If there are still problems I'll swap the cat5
> cable and try that. I have to confess that it's a box with low usage, so
> I've never spent much time on it.
>
> Anne
Try man ethtool;
ethtool -s DEVNAME \
[ speed 10|100|1000 ] \
[ duplex half|full ] \
[ port tp|aui|bnc|mii|fibre ] \
[ autoneg on|off ] \
[ phyad %d ] \
[ xcvr internal|external ] \
[ wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d... ] \
[ sopass %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x ] \
[ msglvl %d ]
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