gib/em driver problems?

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 06:40:50PM -0800, joe mcguckin wrote:
>I went out and purchased a PCIe ethernet card - it uses the em driver. 
>The system boots and it is em0.
>
>It works fine in 100Mb mode, but in gigabit mode, it does not pass any 
>traffic although ifconfig reports
>the card as active and that it has negotiated 1000BTX full duplex.
>
>I have tried plugging both the igb and em cards into 2 different switches 
>with the same result.

Hi,

Try manually setting the card's speed to gigabit mode, instead of it
auto-negotiating. Speaking from experience, I have known some cards to
show either packet loss or just not work at all if the speed isn't
nailed up when they are talking to some switches.
-- 
J.
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