Re: How to pass network card options..

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Sat, 29 May 1999 18:46:17 +0100 (BST)


Plug them in to a 10Mbps hub, or tell your switch to force 10Mbps.

Or if you want to pass parameters see:

Documentation/networking/vortex.txt

A.

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:

> I have a couple of 3com cyclone/boomerang cards...I would like to be
> able to put them in a 10Mb mode..I know ther are auto-detecting and
> autonegotiating and they do that job well..(they run pretty well at
> 100MB).But I would like them to work as 10MB cards...
>
> My kernel is 2.2.7(base RH 5.2)..I have compiled a non-monolithic kernel
> and have compiled the network drivers as modules with kerneld enabled
> and all that works just fine...
>
> What are the options and at what time and how do I pass them to the
> kernel so that the cards work in 10 MB mode..??

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