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Well, if you cant figure it out with software, You know your not running 1000 unless your connected to a gigabit network, and most network cards will have a little light indicating whether it is running at 10 or 100Mbps. you could check the back of the card (hardware level).
What other ways that I can determine the speed without checking the LED at the back of the card?
Well you can always try something like this.
Code:
>$ dmesg |grep eth0
eth0: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
eth0: Ethernet Address: 00:50:8D:D1:28:6B
eth0: Link autonegation speed 100M bps full duplex
Or course changing the eth0 to eth1 or such if different even eth* for any ethernet card detected.
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