On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:57, Amy wrote: SNIP > > Part of the reason I left windows was to avoid stupid things like > restarting my computer. Ug. That and I liked that my computer doesn't > go funny on me just because it's been on for hours and/or days at a > time. > > I ended up getting help from a friend though, which seems to have > temporarily fixed the problem. We'll see if it holds whenever I end up > having to turn my computer off for whatever reason. Probably the next > time will be when I go to take it over to my boyfriend's house, but > that will also include the adventure of getting it to work with a > wireless adapter since he and his roommate have a wireless network > happening. > > My friend talked me through using mii-tool to figure out what's up. > First he had me check what the actual connection was (mii-tool eth1), > to make sure it matched what the router was telling me. Then he had me > use "mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1" to set it for full duplex mode. > eth0 is the NIC onboard on the motherboard, I use a PCI NIC because my > last motherboard had trouble with the onboard NIC. Anyhow, now, my > router still doens't have the dull duplex light turned on, but if I do > enough with my internet connection, it'll come on long enough to > cooperate, and I am indeed back up and running for now. > > I'll make another post to this thread later if this change doesn't > stick and I still have problems. But I should most likely be able to > fix it with the other information provided in the thread if this > doesn't stick if/when I have to restart next. > > Thanks for all your help!
mii-tool is "the other way" of forcing full duplex. It will not survive a reboot you will have to run it every time you restart networking. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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