At 07:09 AM 19/06/2005, Marcin Koziej wrote:

When I set the media by hand it showed 'active', but no data could be transmitted (yellow link diode on switch, not blinking). I then pulled the switch with my home
lan from the wall and plugged my re0 instead - It worked!

So this seems to be the %$R#(@%*$ switch issue. The funny thing is, that with media set manually (or sometimes with autoselect) everything works fine with this switch
(i have used it all day yesterday till evening without problem). Now, when i


Both sides have to agree to the setting. ie if the switch is set to autoneg, your network card must also be set to autoneg and vice versa. Unless its a managed switch, leave the NIC as autonegotiate. If its still failing, I suspect its something with the re driver. Its possible the NIC and switch dont like each other (it has happened in the past with certain vendors) but this is pretty rare these days.

---Mike
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