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should show you all currently installed and detected interface cards in your [[UBC]]. If not, try to find it by scrolling through dmesg
should show you all currently installed and detected interface cards in your [[UBO]]. If not, try to find it by scrolling through dmesg


  dmesg | less -XF
  dmesg | less -XF
== Linux ==
mii-tool will provide more information about your NIC:
# mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
in this above case it shows I'm using 100baseT full duplex and the link is OK.

Latest revision as of 21:58, 21 October 2006

Network Interface Card. The card between your computer and the network ;)

/sbin/ifconfig -a

should show you all currently installed and detected interface cards in your UBO. If not, try to find it by scrolling through dmesg

dmesg | less -XF

Linux

mii-tool will provide more information about your NIC:

# mii-tool 
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok

in this above case it shows I'm using 100baseT full duplex and the link is OK.