Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?

[John Summerfield]

phil prentice wrote:
> Thanks, I will try ethtool.  By the way I needed 10Mbps because I'm trying to 
> communicate with an old system which only supported 10.  I just dont 
> understand why one laptop works fine and the other does not and was wondering 
> if there was some standard reason why this might be happening.
> 

I would expect the switch to handle the difference. I've never noticed 
my networks slowing down just because I plugged in a slower device, and 
I would (I chucked a 10 Mbit switch when I found it wasn't 100 Mbit; the 
difference cost a day's work).


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John

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