ignite lan card speed setting failure

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

Autoneg is only required for a bit of master / slave negotitiation at gigabit line speed when directly connecting two hosts - everything else should also work with manual settings. while this might be too theoretical for 1000BTX, it definitely ought to work at 100BTX.

But obviously You're right and the speed just isn't being set :)

[Steven E. Protter]

Experience: Pete is right.

Older 100 BT cards require explicit manual settings.

1000 BT cards work better with autonegotiate where you need to make sure the switch port settings are correct.

SEP

[rick jones]

While distasteful, it should be "ok" (lower case) to try to force a Gigabit Ethernet NIC to 100 Megabit full duplex. Autoneg is required for _gigabit_ operation.

If there is a way to check an rc log or dmesg or something while trying to ignite that would be goodness.