Hi, I have some problems with a machine (Fujitsu dual Xeon) with an on board Intel 82540 network card. This is what kudzu reports: device: eth0 driver: e1000 desc: "Intel Corp.|82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller" The problem is that it takes a long time to start and the mount of some NFS directories fails at boot. I tried to "ping" the machine when it boots and the first ping I get back is when the login screen is already on. If I try a network stop/start it takes 18/20 seconds before the network works, even if I get an [OK] almost immediately. The machine is connected to a Cisco switch and I thought that the problem could be negotiating the speed so I tried to force eth0 to 100M FD with "options Speed=100 Duplex=2" in modules.conf but it made it even slower, and it gave an error about "Speed, AutoNeg and MDI-X" being incompatible(??). Only thing I can think is to put a delay in rc.local and mount the NFS directory there, but I hope there is a better solution. Additional info,"dmesg" has this: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.1.13-k1 Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Intel Corporation. divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.1.13-k1 Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Intel Corporation. divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex I don't know anything about this "divert_blk" is this a problem? And this is only the first time, with a "network restart" only the last two lines appear, but the delay is still present. Any help? Thanks, GianPiero -- **************************************************************************** * Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata GianPiero Puccioni * * Largo E.Fermi 6 E-Mail : gip@xxxxxx * * I-50125 Firenze - ITALY Tel +39 055 23081 - Fax +39 055 2337755 * ****************************************************************************
