I have now seen this problem too. With debug=2 I see messages of the form: eth1: MII link partner 0080, negotiated 0080. and the lights are set to the appropriate state for 100baseTx-HD. However, I can't ping across the connection and I see plenty of messages of the form: eth1: Transmit timeout using MII device. -- John Connett (jrc@art-render.com)