Set NIC speed during recovery?

[Tom Smith_9]

Is there a way to set the speed/duplex of a LAN interface during a net recovery? I have a RP5405 that always seem to autonegotiate improperly, and runs very slow, until the card is forced to 100/Full.

I am performing a net recovery of that server and it seems to be going painfully slow and I am seeing some errors on the switch port like I have seen when autoneg didn't work properly.

My question is, can the speed and duplex setting be set (forced to 100 Full) during the recovery?

Thanks,
-Tom

[SS_6]

Hi Tom,
There is a configuration file under /etc/rc.config.d/hpbtlanxxxx
modify this file for the entry of that particulan lan card from Auto_ON to 100FD. The name of the file could be little bit different depending upon the type of lan card but it will start from hpbtxxx. Your card will be set to 100FD automatically on next reboot.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

absolutely

insl_adm

-d dipslays

you can route that to a file and then instl_adm -f filename to load it up.

SEP

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Tom,

Try this,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065678943

The ITRC doc id is CDOWKBRC00007984.

Hope this helps.

Regds