First do you mean 82571?  Also, are you really talking Fiber Channel or are you 
talking about using a fiber Ethernet port?  The 82571 won't work in a Fiber 
Channel environment.  Connected to a fiber Ethernet port it will only operate 
on a 1 gigabit full duplex link, by specification.  So if you are trying to 
change speeds on a fiber Ethernet port, the error messages are correct.

Cheers,
John
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: rajeev naidu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:10 AM
>To: Linux NICS
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: [E1000-devel] Fiber NICs speed
>
>Hi,
>
>I am working on a H/W which uses e1000 82751 NIC. The Network
>interface connected(uses) via Fiber channel. I am facing a problem
>when i try to change(reduce the speed) the Interface space 100 or 10.
>The ioctl command fails with -1 ("Unsupported Speed/Duplex
>configuration") and when looked into the code i found a statement:
>
>/* Fiber NICs only allow 1000 gbps Full duplex */ .
>
>Can somebody tell me is there any H/W limitation?
>
>Regards,
>--Rajesh
>
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