Re: set link speed

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:27 -0700, Fletcher Liverance wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to connect to an ancient wired network that doesn't negotiate at 100Mbps very well, so I'd like to set it to 10Mbps using network manager. Does network manager have the ability to manually set the network speed and half/full duplex? 

Not at this time.  We have config options for it, but they aren't hooked
up yet.  Partially that's because we'd have to write both MII ioctl and
ethtool support, and doing both sucks, but should be done.

For the moment, you could set up a udev rule that when it detects the
interface, forces the link speed/duplex settings.

Dan

> I haven't had luck with this Googling or looking through the archives, I'd imagine 99% of users don't need it these days, but it's sure nice to have for the few of us that still need it.
> 
> I see in the DBus API there is a property in Device.Wired called 'Speed', which returns 0. Is this related to the link speed?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Fletcher
> 
> 
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