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Most cards, well, just about every one in the past few years, are set to auto-negotiate their connection if they have the ability to handle mutliple speeds. If you're just getting a lot of packet collisions over the hub and data transfer is going through fine with all the machines on the network, that's normal, don't worry about it. If its making one or more boxen go gibbedyboo, what exactly is wrong?
Also, forcing a negotiation speed to the card is usually a matter of passing the kernel module a parameter upon insertion. Offhand, what kind of card is it and what kernel module is it using?
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as a simple side note even though most cards do auto negotiate I have seen quite a few that are set to either default or max instead of auto until you change it via some utility.
if you do a man on ifconfig there are a few options you can set when you turn on the NIC card.
i think you can force the card mode using the mii-tool utilities. dunno where to get them from tho.. have a search around. it will probably only work with certain cards tho.
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