Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
thank you for your reply,i will try that setup when i get home, but for now the network seems functioning on 100mbps though sometimes it disconnects unexpectedly however it has been stable for 2 days,anyway i was trying to force that setting as instructed from the ISP, though i never had to do

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-06 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Ghaith, I think that you shouldn't do this this way, but so be it. It's generally spekaing to 'force' a specific setting. In most cards and switches this disables all negotiation, and can lead to all sorts of strange problems. Especially regard duplex issues. put this in /etc/conf.d/net

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-06 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghaith, I think that you shouldn't do this this way, but so be it. It's generally spekaing to 'force' a specific setting. In most cards and switches this disables all negotiation, and can lead to all sorts of strange problems.

[gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello,i need to get my ethernet link speed to 10Mbits full duplex i'm using mii-tool to do it but is there a way to do it before net.eth0 starts at boot, maybe some line to add in /etc/conf.d/net i added the normal command i'm usign though it didn't seem to work, i then added it to

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:14:34 +0300, Ghaith Hachem wrote: i need to get my ethernet link speed to 10Mbits full duplex i'm using mii-tool to do it but is there a way to do it before net.eth0 starts at boot, maybe some line to add in /etc/conf.d/net i added the normal command i'm usign though it

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
well actually it can function on 100 mbps but it would be extremly slow for some reason (really long cable) so the isp just told me to keep the link at 10 mbps.On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't it auto-detecting the link speed?-- Ghaith HachemTristMoon