Douglas K. Fischer wrote:
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At 01:41 PM 5/27/2003, you wrote:
Ken Kleiner wrote:
I posted a message asking how to force 100/full duplex on a DELL PE2650 with
Broadcomm - it wants to do 100/half.
Suggestions were to use
ethtool or mii-tool to force it
and/or add auto_speed=0 to /etc/modules.conf.
For tg3 driver, use ethtool to force it in the ifup-post networking
script. You can't do it from modules.conf, the interface isn't up yet.
Actually, the problem with trying to do it via /etc/modules.conf for the
tg3 driver isn't a matter of the interface being up or down, it's a matter
of the tg3 driver not supporting kernel module options for duplexing. The
/etc/modules.conf options are used when the kernel module is loaded, not
when the interface is configured.
You misunderstand. What you say about module options is obviously correct.
However, /etc/modules.conf has a post-install trigger, and people have
been trying to run ethtool from that. That's what I meant.
tg3 will not support duplexing/speed kernel module options in the future,
so ethtool/mii-tool is the way to go.
yes, ...from ifup-post :)
(that clarification is needed due to post-install trigger issue above)
Jeff
