From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 6:46:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6CA37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f5PFA2p42414; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:10:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:10:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Christoph Sold Cc: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Ehternet card setting In-Reply-To: <3B36E73C.FFA5F2F9@i-clue.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Christoph Sold wrote: > > I'm a newbie on FreeBSD . Could somebody give me a advise how do I > > change ethernet speed and duplex setting manually ? My network card > does > support 10/100 . But I want to force it running at 10Mbps , > half duplex > > man ifconfig, search for mediaopts, refer to the man page for your NIC > to get which mediaopts are supported. Type command as user root at prompt: # ifconfig xl0 media 10BaseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex Substitute your network card type for the 'xl0' statement above. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message