On Tuesday 27 April 2004 12:15, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Problem #2
5 wire drops in our lab cannot pass 100Mb Full Duplex traffic. In windows, I had to tell the driver for the nic to either drop down to 10MB Full, or in one case 10MB Half. This was no problem, I knew where to go to do this and everything worked.
I know the real solution is to fix the drops, but that would involve fishing more wire through drywall. Suse must allow for dropping 10/100 NICs down manually, doesn't it?
That is a function of the kernel module. Try modinfo (module name) to get a list of the possible arguments to the module, and add the correct argument to /etc/modules.conf (or modprobe.conf if 2.6 kernel)
I just don't know how. NICs are either 3COM or DLINK in variety, if that makes a difference.
For a permanent solution, you definitely need to change any bad cables. Since you already have cables, pulling new ones just means tying a new cable to the old one and use the old one to pull the new cable through the wall with it as you remove it. Check out mii-tool from the net-tools package:
whatis mii-tool mii-tool (8) - view, manipulate media-independent interface status
mii-tool -f should set speed and duplex, apparently independent of card and driver?