On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Dag Wieers wrote: > I was using RHEL3 in rescue mode and noticed ethtool and mii-tool are both > missing. I have to recover something over the network (which is 8GB big) > and with the wrong 100Mbps half duplex settings it will take 15 hours :) > > Soà I was wondering if there is a way from a shell or functionality from > anaconda) to change the interface characteristics. ethtool/mii-tool kind > of functionality. > > The rhpl package includes a ethtool module that would be very useful to > have somewhere in anaconda (so that it can be used from kickstart or on > the commandline, using python). > > Or is there some other way that I couldn't figure out, this can be done ? I forgot to mention that I'm not looking for providing module options to anaconda, but a generic way to set any (supported) interface. In this case I'm reluctant to reboot and figure out how to do that for a rescue boot. If this functionality is not available on RHEL3, would it be useful to add a feature enhancement request to bugzilla ? Thanks in advance, -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
