Re: How to configure wired network device

["S. Vater" <st vater web de>]

Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 15:26 schrieb Timo Hoenig:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:46 +0100, S. Vater wrote:
> > I have written for me a small script, which hopefully does the job.
>
> If the script works fine, please add it to [1].
>

Well, first I will probably have to check if it works correctly. But do 
not expect too much. I am not very experienced in shell programming.

> > Is there any possibility that nm supports setting drivers with
> > ethtool in future versions?
>
> Well, I am not sure whether there are plans for that.
>
> For your problem,
>
> (quote from your initial mail)
>
> > Since I do not get full duplex using auto negotiation when I
> > connect to the network of my institute, I would like to set this
> > manually.
>
> this sounds more like a bug to me.  If true, this should not be
> solved with workarounds either by NM itself or by executing some
> magic script. So, if it is a bug elsewhere we will not be willing to
> cover that by workarounds in NM.

In my opinion there is some problem in the switch or somewhere else in 
the network so that auto negotiation does not work. In other networks, 
my NIC has no problems. But since my sysadmin does not bother about 
that really, I have to deal with the workaround to manually specify to 
have full duplex. I have also read in other newsgroups that there are 
some switches, which have this problem.

Nevertheless, I think that there should be a possibility to set driver 
options manually somewhere while using nm, as it could be done with 
ifup in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth* (as far as I understand).

Stefan

>
>    Timo
>
> [1] Wiki for NetworkManager Dispatcher Scripts
>    
> http://www.darrenalbers.net/wiki/index.php?title=NetworkManagerScript
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