Changing speed on a Realtek 8169 NIC

Yasir · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

Hey,

I have a small problem with my gentoo laptop that i need help with. My laptop has an onboard Realtek 8169 10,100,1000 NIC (r8169 module). I always had problems connecting the my router linksys wrt54g with it. I have found that there is some imcompatibilty between these two and in for them to work together, I have to set my NIC to 10mbit half-duplex. In windows, it is working fine now with these settetings. The problem is that I am not able to change with my 2.6.6-rc1 kernel linux. Any suggestions?

I have tried mii-tool and it says that my eth0 is not supported

I have seen in r8169.c that I can specify something of the sort:

insmod r8169 media=0x01

which i tried and that did not do anything

Thanks for your help
Yasir[/code]

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:31 pm Post subject:

Yasir,

You have to use the insmod command to load the module. If it is already loaded you must unload it then reload it with the paramater(s).

modinfo <module name> will tell you the parameters the module understands.
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