set gigabit card to lower speed on FreeBSD

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Apr 14 13:39:51 PDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:23:38PM -0700, kunchanl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Do any of you know how I can force my Netgear GA620
> gigabit ethernet card
> to run at lower speed (eg. 100BT) on freebsd
> 
> from ifconfig, it seems I can only set the
> card in 1000baseSX mode

This device can't support other modes.  In general fiber gigabit
adaptors only support gigabit speeds.

-- Brooks

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