force NIC into 100baseTX?

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JustinHoMi

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Howdy. The pci network card in my beige g3 is only being recognized as 10baseT, and it's capable of 100baseTX. Does anyone know how to force the card to run at full speed? I've tried ifconfig en1 media 100baseTX but it replies with ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Operation not supported. FYI, the nic is an asantefast (09-00169-01 rev C) with the digital 21140-AF chipset. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Justin
 
What do you have the card connected to? It can only run as fast as the device on the other end of the cable.

Tim
 
Check the output of 'ifconfig' to see if 100 BaseTX is supportedc by your NIC. Also, your other external devices have to support this also. You may find options only on EN0, not EN1. So try this 'sudo ifconfig en0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex'. again, this will only work if there is a 100 BaseT connection to communicate to. Hope this helps?
 
Yeah, my nic supports 10/100, and so does my router. All of the other computers on the network run at 100.

ifconfig:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::200:94ff:fea1:4d95%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:00:94:a1:4d:95
media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active
supported media: 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> autoselect autoselect 10baseT/UTP
en0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
tunnel inet -->
ether 00:03:02:ac:19:42
media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex>
 
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