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Setting Forced Mode
This section describes how to set forced mode (not capable of auto-negotiation).
To Select One Local Transceiver Capability and
Setting Forced Mode
1. Select one of the following capabilities: adv_100fdx_cap , adv_100hdx_cap ,
adv_10fdx_cap , or adv_10hdx_cap , and set its value to 1.
If you select more than one of the local transceiver capabilities, the driver selects
the one that is highest in the priority order (see the footnote from Table C–5).
2. Set the local transceiver capabilities advertised by the hardware to forced mode
= 0, which is not capable of auto-negotiation: adv_autoneg_cap 0
Use the ndd utility as described in “Using the ndd Utility in Interactive Mode”
on page 35.
Auto-Negotiation Mode
This section describes how to select at least one of the four local transceiver
capabilities and set the mode to auto-negotiation.
To Set the Mode to Auto-Negotiation
1. Select at least one of the five capabilities ( adv_100fdx_cap ,
adv_100hdx_cap , adv_10fdx_cap , adv_10hdx_cap ) that you want to
advertise to the remote system, and set its value to 1.
2. Set the local transceiver capabilities advertised by the hardware to 1, the
auto-negotiation setting: adv_autoneg_cap 1
Use the ndd utility as described in “Using the ndd Utility in Interactive Mode”
on page 35.
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Revision A, August 1997