James wrote: > Hello, > > Currently, I manage gentoo system that have a variety of 10 and 100 MB/s > ethernet cards. I use lshw to distinguish the max ethernet port speed: > <snip> > > Is this reliable? What if a 10/100 card is plugged into a 10MB/s hub?
Have you tried mii-tool? quasar ~ # mii-tool -v int0 int0: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok product info: Yukon 88E1011 rev 5 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control link partner: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/ ====================================================== Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ======================================================
