NIC Problems - Followup

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Curt Stauffer said:
> I tried (via insmod bcm4400 <options>) to set for 10M half-duplex; it
> appeared to work but I was then unable to communicate with my gateway
> (icmp
> host unreachable when trying to ping the gateway or another machine on my
> internal network).  I tried another approach to see what would happen and
> unhooked all but the Fedora machine from the gateway and using the default
> settings for the card (100M, full-duplex, no flow control).  The number of
> errors reduced dramatically (but not to zero).  Funny thing is that the
> Win2K machine I unhooked wasn't doing anything as far as I could tell, so
> why would unhooking it make any difference?

Maybe you unhooked a faulty cable? One that works "sort of", but maybe
isn't quite up-to-spec? Something like that...