How to know if a given port is Half or Full Duplex from Gnome?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> How to know on a gigabit Eth0 if a given port is working in half
> duplex, full duplex,and if it's fast ethernet or full ethernet, from
> Gnome/Fedora?
>
> If I hover over the ETH0 icon in the notification area of the Gnome
> bar I only see "Wired connection 'System eth0' active". Is there any
> way to make it display "Wired connection ' system eth- active (1000
> Mbit, Fulll Duplex)" or @"Wired connection ' system eth- active (1000
> Mbit, Half Duplex)"

basically I' d like a way to see graphically what
ethtool eth0
gives....

FC