On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 13:30 -0500, jludwig wrote:
> 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 ]
>
Thanks for pointing out ethtool. I had earlier seen mii-tool but could
not remember what it was.
The -s you show above allows setting the parameters but does not display
anything about current settings..
After some playing with ethtool I found out that the display from
"ethtool ethX" is likely what Anne needs. Example from mine below.
[root@eagle ~]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Half
Port: MII
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: external
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Link detected: yes
Again, Thanks
Jeff
