How to setup a gigabit nic to run full duplex at 1gigabit

Rustylinux · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 154

Hey,

Just need some help setting up the nic to run at full gigabit or at least 10/100. Also how do you check what your card is currently set at? and change it. I'm useing a 3ware nic: 3c940 in the box.

Any help would be greatly appricated.

Dieter@be · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

dmesg | less

it's one of the things that pops in when your system has finished booting ,so you know where to look (offcourse you won't see anything if you don't have the right drivers etc)

when i do it, i see: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex (for an intel 1000Mbps card)
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nixnut · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

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GoofballJM1 · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

Perhaps this is redundant, but are you running into a Gigabit Switch? When you install the right driver, it will run at whatever speed of network device it's plugged into.
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