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Operating Systems Solaris change NIC speed Post 302475891 by jlliagre on Tuesday 30th of November 2010 08:37:13 AM
Old 11-30-2010
I fully agree with last hergp comment. Ethernet settings should be set to auto negotiate. This should just work. If it doesn't, have the vendors fix their hardware instead of trying to mess with settings.
This is from experience. I have seen a lot of networking issues in various sites and plenty of them were due to wrong settings, the most common being one side auto-neg while the other one had fixed speed/duplex mode.

This is somewhat similar to IP settings. If you have a correctly configured dhcp server, things usually work fine. If you have fixed addresses and let people setting them, you quickly end up with duplicate IPs, wrong DNS settings, wrong default routers and so on.
 

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WICD-MANAGER-SETTINGS.CONF(5)					File Formats Manual				     WICD-MANAGER-SETTINGS.CONF(5)

NAME
wicd-manager-settings.conf - contains settings that control Wicd's behavior DESCRIPTION
This file contains general configuration information for Wicd. This file is located at /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf SETTINGS
link_detect_tool = <0|1|2> 0 = autodetect 1 = ethtool 2 = mii-tool flush_tool = <0|1|2> 0 = autodetect 1 = ip 2 = route backend = <ioctl|external> Default is ioctl backend. signal_display_type = <0|1> 0 = Show signal strength as a percentage 1 = Show signal strength in dBm dhcp_client = <0|1|2|3> 0 = autodetect 1 = dhclient 2 = dhcpcd 3 = pump sudo_app = <0|1|2|3> 0 = autodetect 1 = gksu 2 = kdesu 3 = ktsuss wired_interface = <interface_name> always_show_wired_interface = <True|False> wired_connect_mode = <0|1> 0 = connect to wired interface automatically 1 = do not connect to wired interface automatically prefer_wired = <True|False> True = Switch to wired interface if a link is detected, even if already connected to wireless False = Do not switch to wired interface automatically wireless_interface = <name_of_wireless_interface> wpa_driver = <wext|madwifi|ndiswrapper|hostap|hermes|atmel|broadcom|ipw|ralinklegacy|none> The default (and best supported) is wext. It should work properly in most cases. The none special value makes WICD pass no -D parameter to wpa_supplicant, which might be useful in some cases. auto_reconnect = <True|False> This settings determines whether Wicd will attempt to reconnect on connection loss. use_global_dns = <True|False> If set to "True" and values are specified in the global DNS settings below, this will cause Wicd to use these DNS settings. global_dns_dom = <plaintext_domain_name> This specifies the default search domain to be used by the resolver. global_dns_1 = <ip_address> global_dns_2 = <ip_address> global_dns_3 = <ip_address> debug_mode = <integer_value> 0 = disabled 1 = enabled SEE ALSO
wicd(8), wicd-curses(8), wicd-wired-settings.conf(5), wicd-wireless-settings.conf(5). wicd-1.7.2.4 WICD-MANAGER-SETTINGS.CONF(5)
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