[TriLUG] change speed/duplex on xircom pcmcia NIC?

[Chris MacLeod]

There is a very useful tool for setting *things* on ethernet cards under 
linux
diag (http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html), it's basically similiar to 
ndd under solaris.

There are a couple of different ones for specific cards (ether express 
pro etc) but then there is a generic one that should work with any card 
(I have yet to find one that it won't work with)

Hope that helps.

Stick

Lisa Lorenzin wrote:

>hi all!
>
>i'm trying to find a way to hardcode the port speed and duplex on a xircom
>pcmcia NIC under redhat 7.3 (generic laptop installation, in a dell
>latitude cpi laptop, if that matters).  it doesn't have an entry in
>/etc/modules.conf, and it's not supported by mii-tool or ethtool...
>
>ethtool -i gives:
>
>[root at localhost root]# ethtool -i eth0
>driver: xircom_cb
>version:
>firmware-version:
>bus-info:
>
>is there an obvious clue i'm missing?  i can't believe something this
>basic isn't supported, but i haven't been able to find anything in google
>or the redhat docs to indicate how to do it.  
>
>(i installed kde, rather than gnome, so i don't have 
>redhat-config-network; from the dependencies, it looks like i pretty much 
>have to install all of gnome just to get that running.  is this 
>functionality accessible from there?  it's not clear from the redhat 
>customization guide whether it is or not, and i don't see much point in 
>going down that rabbithole if it isn't.)
>
>any clues will be most appreciated!
>
>						lisa
>
>
>  
>

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