I had no joy with the append option, I did however have a little success
with ethtool -
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kryten:~# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
kryten:~# reboot
kryten:~# grep eth0 /var/log/dmesg
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0800000, 00:e0:4c:e9:5b:db, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
kryten:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 32
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: off
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: d
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I thought it strange that once rebooted the card was picked up as 10MB HD
but ethtool shows 100MB FD? I'm pretty sure the card is running at 100MB as
the switch shows the link at 100MB (is only a cheapo switch, does not show
about the duplex setting) but I'm curious about the duplex setup. FTP is
only transferring at 500KB/s so something is definiately screwy.
Also is I use the command "ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex half autoneg off"
the 100MB light on the switch does go off leading me to believe the switch
is reporting the speed correctly.
I decided to test my other linux box which is setup with a modular kernal
with the identical network card and found it is transfering at 5MB/s.. I'm
am now confused...
R
GS
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 9:26 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: RTL8139 Full Duplex with a non-modular kernel
Am Di, den 29.06.2004 schrieb Gerard Sharpe um 1:18:
> Thanks for the reply, just one small problem.. I'm using lilo as my
> boot loader :)
lilo uses the append syntax, so my given suggestion would be:
append="8139too=0x30"
Don't trust me too much :) I am not very sure about the value passed to the
8139too driver. Its worth a trial, you can't break things with it.
Alexander
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