Welcome to our community

Hi all,
I have a Tru64 Unix V5.1 Alpha system with a DE500 network adapter installed. How do I find out and set the network speed?
Regards

On the scm-prompt, type show device. Find out wich device is the NIC. After this you can set the speed. Example from the ES45 owners guide:

set ei*0_mode <value> or
set ew*0_mode <value>

The options for value are:
aui Device type is AUI.
bnc Device type is ThinWire.
fast Device type is fast 100BaseT.
Fastfd Device type is fast full duplex 100BaseT.
full Device type is full duplex twisted-pair.
twisted-pair Device type is 10BaseT (twisted-pair).

Hope this helps.

Br, Bert.

Hi,
Thanks for this information, I realy appreciate good advice. Does anyone know if you can view/change these variables from Tru64 Unix.
Thanks

You cannot change them in TRU64, they are hardware / BIOS configured.
To view the settings you can use HWMGR.

# hwmgr -get attr -cat network

You can also use the "consvar" command
#consvar -l (lists some info, but a bit restrictive)
#consvar –g sys_serial_num (if you know what the variable is then you can use the -g "option" to find out what it is)
I think you can also use the -s option to change some variables but I believe that you would need to reboot the system for them to take effect, but I havn't tried this option...
Hope this is useful

just tried consvar -s "variable" which changed the value. It was also changed to my new setting when I shutdown the system to SRM console level.
I believe that you would probably still need to reboot the system for the variable to change. I just modified the boot_osflags setting so it's up to you what you try next.
Regards