Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> We've just moved one a new server from our sever room, where I built >> it, to the datacenter. We want to force autoneg off, and tell it >> gigabit and full duplex. Using ethtool, I get no errors setting the >> speed or duplex. HOWEVER, autoneg on works... and autoneg off >> utterly refuses to work, and gives: >> >> ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off >> Cannot set new settings: Invalid argument >> not setting autoneg > > Did you turning off autoneg at the same time you set the speed and > duplex? > > ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off That was where I started. And I also tried putting autoneg off first.... mark