[eepro100] Speed and Duplexing, Once Again

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Mirza, Danish wrote:

> can u tell me how to setup eepro100 to work on gige network ?

The eepro100 NICs only work at 10Mbps and 100Mbps.  They will not work
at gigabit speeds.

If the gigabit switch senses or negotiates the speed and duplex (most
switches do), everything will work automatically.

> do we have to put some parameters in /etc/modules.conf like we do to make it
> 100 FULL.

This is a great example of why forcing the speed and duplex to 100-full
is a very bad idea.
If you swap cables to a gigabit switch, your duplex will be mismatched.
If you then force the gigabit switch link to 100-full, an upgrade to a
gigabit card will be slow, and perhaps have a freshly-mismatched duplex.

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