Gigabit Ethernet in Debian

[Aprox]

Hey guys, I recently realized that my linux box has been running in 100base Full Duplex but I have a full gigabit setup (switch as well). Here is the output from ethtool:

GOPHER:/etc/network# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
        Link detected: yes

So as you can see the card does in fact support Gigabit, but I dont know how to change the config so that it will use it. Any light that can be spread on this would be very appreciated. I have done google searches and I cant find anything on actually changing this setting.

Thanks guys!

 

[Aprox]

Well, I managed to figure it out. If anyone cares to know this is how I did it.

ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000

just that simple....

-s actually allows you to change all sorts of settings. Now I get trasfers in the 500Mb range! woohoo!