On Nov 6, 2007 2:08 PM, Chris Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed 4.2 release on my evga 680i based motherboard , > which uses nfe(4) for the onboard gig NIC's. > > There seems to be an issue in the handling of the autodetection of > media types and the speed it can run at when manual > selection is set. So say for instance I set it manually to 100baseTX > it will no longer function and does not send packets. > If I then set it to 10baseT it will work fine, I have checked the > network routers/cables and interfaces from a windows partition > which detects a 100mbps link. > > I have notived that on the router it detects a 100mbps link before the > kernel initiatesthe device during boot i.e before any mention of nfe > on the screen.
Try using a gigabit switch. I remember having similar issues with which were solved by switching to 1000baseTX.
