Kinda upset at the lack of response to GBe issues

[MarkHaysHarris777]

whoo hoo, you guys are NOT going to believe this !

... I just grabbed a new Cat6 cable and opened each end with a scalple. I literally cut and removed the blue pair and the brown pair;  um, leaving intact the orange pair and the green pair.

Then I pulled the blue pair and the brown pair ( with a pair of needle nose pliers ) ; I literally removed them from the cable, forming a 2 pair (four wire) cable.

Using my ubuntu image and the 'bad card' connection to the GbE switch is now working !  It went from not working at all on the GbE switch to running at 95mb/s !

w00t w00t... !!!

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I suspect that the reason this works is that the negotiation for GbE does not happen and by default the unit comes up  100 /full.


( we're getting closer people,  we're getting closer ! )