On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:42 am, Jordan Michaels wrote: > We just had a similar situation with an NForce4 onboard GigE NIC. We > were using a linux OS, but it turns out it was the 100mb switch we had > it plugged into. Near as I can tell, the switch and the NIC had trouble > auto-negotiating the connection rate. Once we connected the GigE NIC to > a GigE switch, the NIC worked beautifully. > > I'm not sure what "MII read timed out" means, but the OS does see the > NIC and appears to be attempting to use it. You may want to check to see > if it's the switch you're connecting to rather then the OS you're running. > > HTH! I have the same error when plugging into a D-Link DGS-108 gigabit switch or a Linksys Gigabit Workgroup switch. Both work with the same computer running Linux, but I want to run FreeBSD on this box.
Thanks for the info though. Timothy _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
