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In article <3ED5F14E.8070205@he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius
<pete@he.iki.fi> wrote:

> I haven't looked that deep into why, but em is quite slow on coming
> up compared to fxp for example. Probably something to do with
> hardware re-initialization.

I haven't tried this, but I think the problem would go away if you
changed WAIT_FOR_AUTO_NEG_DEFAULT to 0 in "if_em.h".

John
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