From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUSkj-0001lg-Tp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:38:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PHbQ6a008555; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:26 GMT Received: from popmail.jettissystems.com (popmail.jettissystems.com [38.118.146.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9PHXdKw021698 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:33:40 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [69.17.21.212]) by popmail.jettissystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5486856D484 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <435E6C70.8090603@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:33:36 -0500 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j9PHbQ6t008555 X-Archives-Salt: 8ebe3854-b126-410c-b2eb-7e064a65b87e X-Archives-Hash: bd3b0062d529ec658fd9ca951caf1020 Frank.Pikelner@blue-dot.ca wrote: >=20 > I=92m trying to use =93mii-tool=94 to configure the NIC speed and duple= x on a=20 > Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated=20 > 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850=20 > server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/1000 port.= =20 > Every time I try to force the port using mii-tool, the server port stop= s=20 > responding and I have to reboot the box. Someone mentioned that mii-too= l=20 > may not be the correct tool and to try ethtool. My question is will=20 > mii-tool work with a 10/100/1000 port? Should I be using ethtool under=20 > Gentoo and if so where do I get it/install it? I've found that ethtool support more cards than mii-tool. In order to=20 install it I'd do the following echo "sys-apps/ethtool ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge ethtool Using the unstable version will install ethtool3 rather than 2. 3 is a=20 year or two newer than 2. kashani --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list