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From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: amd64/108861: nve(4) driver on FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 does not work
	at 1Gbps with nForce4 NIC
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The following reply was made to PR amd64/108861; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To: "Lawrence Stewart" <lstewart@room52.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/108861: nve(4) driver on FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 does not work at 1Gbps with nForce4 NIC
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:58:36 -0600

 On 2/6/07, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net> wrote:
 > I could not find a fix for the problem.
 >
 > I also could not figure out why explicitly setting the NIC to sync at 100baseTX full-duplex made the NIC work, but only at a fraction of 100Mbps capacity.
 >
 > A work around is to cause the switch port the NIC is plugged into to only allow 100baseTX, so that the NIC will autoselect at 100baseTX and work at reasonable speed. You could also do as I did and stick small 100baseTX switch in between the machine and gigabit switch.
 >
 Have you tried forcing the switch switch and the NIC to 1000baseT Full Duplex?
 
 Sometime times auto-negotiation fails, so forcing speed should fix it.
 
 Scot
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