On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:36:21 -0600 Vijay Sankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:05, Joerg Zinke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm planning to buy this: > > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID > >=730 > > > > or as alternative this mainboard: > > http://de.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1163&l1=3&l2=101&l3=300 > > > > First one has a Vitesse VSC8601 LAN-Chipset. > > Second one has a NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP built-in dual Gigabit MAC > > with external Marvell PHY. > > My regular workstation is a M2NSLI-Deluxe with two e-GeForce 7100GS > Cards. It does not have wireless but does have dual gigabit. I > installed 4.0 from the CD and it worked well initially. After a while > the nfe0 interface stopped responding (I was syncing with the CVS > repository at this time). I upgraded to -current and the same thing > happened when compiling OpenOffice. I was trying different things to > solve this problem thinking that it had something to do with activity > on the machine or the network. For some reason setting mediaopt to > 100BaseT instead of autoselect seemed to resolve the issue.I have not > had a problem with nfe0 for the past few weeks. > many thanks for the info. i will give it a try...
