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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Cc: Gavin McDougall <lists@mediamill.co.za>,
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Subject: Re: change mediaopt of NIC to full-duplex
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Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote:
> The nic returns to half duplex with those bright kernel messages?
> i got this when there was some kind of arp conflict on the ip, and from
> cables, somehow my isp cisco switch defaults to half duplex all the
> time, so when disconnect  and connect the cable it returns to half =/

Have your ISP update their Cisco switches' firmware, and recheck whether 
ethernet autonegotiate works then.  If it doesn't, both sides will have to 
manually set full duplex...

-- 
-Chuck