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larry

> -changed the NIC from the DE500 (21143) that was in it to a 21140 based card
> (Netgear) to see if it was the NIC that was giving me problems. The original
> nic (DE500) refused to jump to FDX on my hub, but the same card on a FreeBSD
> box (my 164SX which I pulled the netgear card from) runs it fine and makes
> the swap to FDX without a problem. If I force that particular port on the
> hub to FDX, the NIC re-aligns and works at FDX....
> 
> anyone have any ideas as to why any of this is happening?
> I'm tempted to install FreeBSD on it to see if it locks up then. (I still
> have like 2 weeks to return it if it's defective)
> 




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 Larry Sendlosky			 	            ATS
 larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com (978) 506-6640                    Compaq
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