I have a Xircom 10/100/Modem Card. How do you force it to be 100/Full instead of Auto Negotiate.

I'm a big fan of ethtool, its not on some distros, Slack doesn't have it by default for instance. Regardless, what's the module on the card? You can set options in the /etc/pcmcia/config file something like rate=100 (the syntax will be different)... run /sbin/modinfo on the module itself in /lib/modules/2.x.x/kernel/drivers/net/module.o

That should give you a list of the available options.

Post back if you get stuck.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks, I downloaded and compiled ethtool. also ran your command. Both say there are no settings. Maybe I need to use a different module. I am using xircom_cb currently (Redhat 9)

ethtool speed eth0

Should show what speeds the card can handle, then a:

ethtool duplex full

This can be nasty, make certain the rest of your network is running full duplex.

I couldn't find how to pass options to the module easily, I thought it was simpler then it is, but I was projecting on to pcmcia the ease of normal "modprobe module.o blah=blah" that's usually not the case with pcmcia modules that cardmgr has to load.

The file to modify would be /etc/pcmcia/config.opts but there's no knowing what arguments the module will take as there are none listed under modinfo and nothing useful in /usr/src/linux-2.4.x/Documentation.

Cheers,

Finegan