Netgear GA311 and Ethtool problem
 

Hi,

I have recently bought gigabit network card Netgear GA311. Since I didn't
get a device driver on the CD I have downloaded a driver from Realtek's web
pages r1000 v1.05 because GA311 has Realtek's RTL8169S-32.

But when I try to set speed, duplex and autonegotiation using ethtool:

ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off

I get the following message:

Cannot set new settings: Operation not permitted
not setting speed
not setting duplex
not setting autoneg

Does anybody know what is wrong and how can I make it work?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Hrvoje

Did you do it as root?

Also some cards don't seem to work with ethtool. Try using the older mii-tool.

Yes, I did it as root.

I have also tried to use mii-tool but it didn't work either:

mii-tool eth1

Reported the following error:

SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not supported