Yeah.  The last time this happened, the full-duplex light was lite for this user but
he was having all kinds of networking problems.  I set it to half duplex in Network
Neighborhood.  The full-duplex light went out and he is a happy camper.  I'll
replace the NIC the next time I have an excuse to get into his computer.

Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
>
>Alot of switches have a full-duplex light which illuminates when this is
>enabled on the attached nic.  For that matter, a lot of nics have a full
>duplex light on them.  I usually use 3com 3c905 nics and they have
>always defaulted to full duplex mode.  In one instance the card had been
>set on a windows machine to half.  I used the vortex (3c905) utility
>from this guy on linux to flip the bit back.
>
>Cory
>
>On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:14:10PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
>> Cool.  I've seen cards that are supposed be able to do full-duplexing but are
>> actually slower (the advertising lied).  This could tune cards where they perform
>> the best, whether it's a "faster" setting or "slower".
>>
>> Cooper Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
>> >
>> >All,
>> >
>> >Some of you remember the days when we could set the Ethernet device's
>> >EEPROM flags with a DOS-based utility. Well, here's a collection of
>> >Ethernet device utilities for Linux:
>> >
>> >  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html#mii-diag
>> >
>> >I greatly improved network transfer speed on the internal subnet hosts
>> >by using the mii-diag utility to set the devices to full-duplex. A side
>> >benefit of this is that my NFS clients are more responsive during heavy
>> >load as they are not working so hard on the Ethernet transfer.
>> >
>> >Note that mii-diag worked on both the Tulip and the RealTek without
>> >modification. Several other models are supported.
>> >
>> >
>> >-Cooper
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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