setting NIC speed?

Hi,

I just installed Red hat 9 and I have a D-Link 538 100/10 NIC. In order to
connect to my router I need to set the NIC's speed to 10mbps. I tried
putting MEDIA=10baseT in ifcfg-eth0 (which has no effect) and "ifconfig eth0
media 10baseT" which gives an "operation not permitted" error. I can do it
from winXP (dual boot) so I know the NIC is capable of switching speeds...

Any hints?

"j" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I just installed Red hat 9 and I have a D-Link 538 100/10 NIC. In order to
> connect to my router I need to set the NIC's speed to 10mbps.


Why ???

The card will work it out automatically ?
What is your router that is causing this problem ? thats a router to stay
clear of !



>I tried
> putting MEDIA=10baseT in ifcfg-eth0 (which has no effect) and "ifconfig
eth0
> media 10baseT" which gives an "operation not permitted" error. I can do
it
> from winXP (dual boot) so I know the NIC is capable of switching speeds...
>
> Any hints?

Assuming the ethernet cards driver is still a module, you put the options
to lock it to 10baseT into /etc/modules.conf

If it was compiled into the kernel, you would add the options into the
lilo.conf or grub.conf

j wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed Red hat 9 and I have a D-Link 538 100/10 NIC. In order to
> connect to my router I need to set the NIC's speed to 10mbps. I tried
> putting MEDIA=10baseT in ifcfg-eth0 (which has no effect) and "ifconfig
> eth0
> media 10baseT" which gives an "operation not permitted" error. I can do
> it from winXP (dual boot) so I know the NIC is capable of switching
> speeds...
>
> Any hints?

I assume you want to shift the speed from something to something? So you're
shifting it from 100m to 10m to make some crappy hub happy??? Hmmm... My
advice would be to dump that brain dead hub and buy yourself a switch.
It'll auto-negotiate with your nics for the highest speed possible...


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