[eepro100] Speed and duplex settings

Tue Nov 20 23:51:00 2001

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Charles Schmidt wrote:

> How do you force the speed and duplex settings on this driver?

Using 'mii-diag'
  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

mii-diag -F 100baseTx-FDX

or when loading the driver using the instructions at
   http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html

Forcing the duplex and speed is usually a mistake.

There have been reports that the driver packaged with recent 2.4 kernel
versions does not force the duplex correctly.

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