2 Jul 2005 02:08
Re: Changing media type of network card
Alexander Economou <alexecon <at> gmail.com>
2005-07-02 00:08:21 GMT
2005-07-02 00:08:21 GMT
On 6/27/05, Emiliano Castagnari <ecastag <at> fi.uba.ar> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > El [ Sat 25, Jun 05 - 13:52 ] , Anindya Mozumdar expreso: > > Hi, > > I have a Intel EtherExpress/100 ethernet card. I would like to > > change the media type to 10base2. However, any attempt of doing this > > using ifconfig gives the error Operation Not Supported. Is there any > > way I can change this ? > > Try mii-tool, to do so, you should first find out what capabilities this > card supports. To do that, you could issue the command 'mii-tool <dev> -vv'. > > This is the output for one of my network cards: > > - -=|[ <at> lambda - root]: /]#> mii-tool eth0 -vv > Using SIOCGMIIPHY=0x8947 > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok > registers for MII PHY 1: > 3100 786d 0000 8201 01e1 45e1 0001 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 000c 0080 0000 0023 0c59 0406 0200 8560 > 8a7b 01f9 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > product info: vendor 00:00:20, model 32 rev 1 > basic mode: autonegotiation enabled > basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok > capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD > advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD > link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control(Continue reading)
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