network card setting

[araneae]

i'm connected to LAN. my network card is 10/100 realtek (RTL 8139). i was looking around all this while to find out how to increase the speed to 100Mbps. the current speed is 10Mbps half-duplex.(this is what shown when i reboot)

i installed "ethtool" which is said to be network card setting for speed, port and autonegotiation. but where is this tool install? do i have to run it in terminal?
or is there any other way that i can increase the speed to 100Mbps?
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i'm using mandrake 10 official

[bwkaz]

By default, I believe all network card drivers use auto-negotiation to determine the speed they should be running at. I know via-rhine, 3c59x (3Com cards), natsemi (FA311), and 8139too (the "new" driver for the RTL-8139 chipset; the old driver was called rtl8139 and should not be used if you can avoid it) all do, because I've used them.

Therefore, it's running at 10Mbps half-duplex because that's the speed of whatever device it's plugged into. What is it plugged into, BTW? A 10-meg hub?

[happybunny]

after installing ethtool it should just run from the command line:

# ethtool eth0

will show you current states

# ethtool

will list all the options


# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

will set it too 100/full

However, if you are plugged into a hub, leave it to autonegotiate. Forcing it to 100/full could slow it down.