Sounds like the N-Way negotiation is broken.

You want to do what Bill suggests and force the NIC to talk at 10Mbps.

This is done by passing parms to the modprobe command. You can do this from the command line and make it stick by changing rc.modules.

For more information, please see:

[link|http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci|http://www.scyld.com...rk/index.html#pci]