[How can I ?] ...force driver to use 10Mbit

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Rudolf Zeilhofer wrote:
> my problem is that I want to use an 10/100Mbit Ethernet-Card (with Realtek 8139 chipset) within
> an 10MBit network. How can I force the driver to use 10MBit. It tries always to send in 100MBit
> mode.

The chip automatically sense the speed of the connection.
To see the current link state use 'mii-diag' from
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/index.html

To force 10baseT (you should never need to) do
  mii-diag -F 10baseT

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