[TriLUG] setting full duplex (part 2)

[Jason Tower]

it's a hardware issue.  get yourself a freedos boot floppy and go to
3com's site, they have a little dos utility that will change the default
setting on the nic from 10/half to auto.

jason

> module is the 3c59x card..
>
> ./ethtool -s autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
>
> doesn't work .. it gives me " Cannot get current device settings: Device
> not
> supported"
>
> although I do see a setting for full duplex then I ./modinfo 3c59x..
>
> Does this mean I need an updated driver that will allow me to set
> additional
> settings..
>
> Thanks for all the good suggestions.. they were all very effective..
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