Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:07:08 +0000 (GMT) |
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Chris Wedgwood writes: > Actually; Ethernet badly needs something like this too. I would kill > to be able to do something like: > > ifconfig eth0 speed 100 duplex full > > o across different networks cards -- I've been thinking about it of > late as I had to battle with this earlier this week; depending on > what network card you use, you need different magic incarnations to > do the above. > > A standard interface is really needed; unless anyone objects I may > look at drafting something up -- but it will require some input if it > is not to look completely Ethernet centric.
We already have a standard interface for this, but many drivers do not support it. Its called "ifconfig eth0 media xxx":
bash-2.04# ifconfig --help Usage: ifconfig [-a] [-i] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>] ... [mem_start <NN>] [io_addr <NN>] [irq <NN>] [media <type>] ... _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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