Am 26. Mar, 2002 schwätzte Stephen Smith so: > I have a set of fairly new systems: one at home and one at work. Both > systems have the same problem, but I will use the data from the home system. > > eth0 is the ethernet device on the mother board. eth1 is a add-on board. > > I have a 10/100MB 3com card in my laptop. It doesn't seem to matter > which ethernet card I plug into, I always get a 10MB connection speed. > The laptop connects just fine at 100MB at work. > > How do I get the devices to try and connect at 100MB? Are they connected directly or via a hub/switch that does 100? Use the mii tools to watch the negotiation and to see what the driver knows about. mii-tool came in the net-tools package on debian. There's also mii-diag, which suggests nictools-pci and nictools-nopci. ciao, der.hans -- # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ http://www..com/ # "... the social skills of a cow on acid." - der.hans