[ale] OT: Determining NIC config/speed with SCO

[Gene Matthews]

I did finally come across (after much searching) a command that will
show this to me.   All I could find in looking through scoadmin was that
the card was set to auto negotiate.

The command 'ndstat -l' will show a lot of stats regarding the
interface, including the link speed:


MAC Driver Info: Media_type: Ethernet
                 Min_SDU: 14, Max_SDU: 1514, Address length: 6
                 Interface speed: 10 Mbits/sec



The SCO version:

# uname -X

System = SCO_SV
Node = vk01381a
Release = 3.2v5.0.5
KernelID = 98/07/02
Machine = PentII(D)
BusType = ISA
Serial = 2GL041763
Users = 5-user
OEM# = 0
Origin# = 1
NumCPU = 1


Thanks,

Gene



-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bowman [mailto:aminus at mindspring.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:29 PM
To: Gene Matthews
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Determining NIC config/speed with SCO

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Gene Matthews wrote:

>OT question, but I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right
>direction.  I have been asked to look at a SCO box and see if the nic,
>which I assume is a 10/100 card and should auto negotiate, is getting
>set to 10 or 100 Mbs.  I thought that would seem easy enough, however,
>I'm not having any luck.  I have no SCO experience, but I thought it
>would show up in the syslog or dmesg but I'm not seeing.  Under
Solaris,
>you can use ndd to get the info also.
>
>Anyone have any pointers?

Which version of SCO? At the command prompt, do:
$ uname -X (that's a capital X)

Look for the line that says:
Release =  (it will be in the form of 3.2vX.X.X)

If the version is 3.2v5.X.X, then from the root prompt, do:
# netconfig

>From here, it gets a little tricky. Use the arrow and tab keys to move
around. I know that *somewhere* in netconfig it allows you to change the
config of the NIC. I believe the option is Advanced, and it's located
under the Hardware settings. A little poking around should find it.
I've done this, but it's been a year or so.

A word of warning - to make the change permanent, you might have to
relink the kernel. It will ask you a series of questions, one of which
relates to rebuilding the kernel enviroment. It's usually the second
question. If you say yes, it will wipe out any changes that have been
made to /etc/inittab, /etc/ttytype, and a few other files. On the
systems I support, these files have been heavily customized. So we
always say no to that question. We've gotten several calls from offices
who had someone local come in, and in the course of doing something,
have wiped out these files, leaving the office dead in the water. So
keep that in mind when you're attempting this.

There's not a dmesg on SCO. Check /usr/adm/messages for most system
messages, including what the system sees at boot. To see the hardware,
from the root prompt, do:
# hwconfig -hc

This lists the installed hardware in an easy(ish) to read table format.

Hopefully this will at least point you in the right direction. Here's
the website I use for most of my SCO questions:
http://stage.caldera.com/ta/

...alan

-- 
If *I* had a hammer, there'd be no more folk singers.
(Linux fortune)



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