Hello, that's me again :) [... realtek has no carrier...]
My question is, is it possible that setting the media to 100baseTX <full-duplex> could cause problems for carrier detection at boot time? Or is my ISP lying and they unplugged the network just right during the kernel panic and only plugged it back after a while? This doesn't sound likely... I do not feel like rebooting again right now just to see if using autoselect works, I'd rather not have to call them today to fix it once more ;-)
Sounds like that at the other end of the patchcable autoselect still is active and is unable to agree with the "fixed media" realtek card. So I would suggest to check the router/switch at the other end of the patchcable and to also switch off autoselect there. tcpblast from the ports is a handy tool to check tcp troughput. To be on the safe side you should tcpblast in both directions. Expect about 10 Mbytes/s with no other network load.
Btw.: I have no experience with Realtek hardware, so there may be other things here causing the error.
with best regards
Alexander
-- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany
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