[opensuse] 11.4 startup issues
A week or two ago, I upgraded from 1.3 to 11.4 on my wife's computer. It's an Intel I5-650 in a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 motherboard. Aside from the niggly little things that I'm gradually getting worked out, there's one big problem that I see no way to solve: the network interface usually comes up on a restart at 10mbps/half duplex (it also did this under 11.3, but not as often). Yast won't touch it, since I use NetworkManager, and I'm completely unable to find a way to fix it under NM (I also tried without success using ifconfig during an episode of trying to make xen work). The only way I've found to get back to 100mbps/full duplex has been to reboot into Windows, which comes up correctly, then reboot back to opensuse desktop (opensuse xen _always_ comes up in the slow speed, but I'm not yet ready to blame it all on xen). Gigabyte says the network interface is RTL8111D. hwinfo says it's RTL 8111/8168B, using driver r8169. Is there a way to fix the Ethernet speed using NM or ifconfig? Or, more to the point, is there any way to solve this? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* John Perry <j.e.perry-t@cox.net> [04-04-11 16:42]:
Is there a way to fix the Ethernet speed using NM or ifconfig? Or, more to the point, is there any way to solve this?
try ethtool ethtool -s ethX [speed 10|100|1000|2500] [duplex half|full] [port tp|aui|bnc|mii] [autoneg on|off] [advertise N] [phyad N] [xcvr internal|external] [wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d...] [sopass xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc] [msglvl N] speed 10|100|1000|2500 Set speed in Mb/s. ethtool with just the device name as an argument will show you the supported device speeds. ... -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 04/04/2011 05:36 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John Perry <j.e.perry-t@cox.net> [04-04-11 16:42]:
Is there a way to fix the Ethernet speed using NM or ifconfig? Or, more to the point, is there any way to solve this?
try ethtool Thanks, Patrick, next time I try xen or restart after a system-level update, I'll try ethtool.
jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 04/04/2011 05:50 PM, John Perry wrote:
On 04/04/2011 05:36 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John Perry <j.e.perry-t@cox.net> [04-04-11 16:42]:
Is there a way to fix the Ethernet speed using NM or ifconfig? Or, more to the point, is there any way to solve this?
try ethtool Thanks, Patrick, next time I try xen or restart after a system-level update, I'll try ethtool.
jp
Last night it occurred to me that I might not have to wait to try it out; I should be able to set it interactively down, then up, if I could set it at all. Sure enough, tana:~ # ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex full autoneg off set it to 10mbps, and the light on my router turned off, then amber. Then, tana:~ # ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off set it to 100mbps, and the light turned green. Thanks much, Patrick. oh, btw, I found a really neat site while googling for help with ethtool: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/ It gave a clear explanation with examples (I couldn't figure out the syntax or use from man). jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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