[SunHELP] U10 Network link nada

[Big Endian]

>Hey guys hope your day is going well.  I have a
>question I'd like to bounce off the group to see if
>anyone has seen this.  Here's the situation....
>I have a number of U10 boxes I need to Jumpstart.  I
>have built all the JS stuff and went to very (run it)
>and when I do a 'boot net - install' almost as soon as
>I hit the return, the box will lose it's network
>connection, ok, no prob, as expected.  Then, when it
>is coming up (after checking memory) it will try to
>load the network device, and i keep getting the link
>down or cable problem message.  Ok, so here's what
>I've done so far, and here is what I plan on doing in
>the morning (wanting to go home now...). At the ok
>prompt, I've done a test net, the loopback is fine,
>but the transceiver check fails, this tells me the NIC
>(actually an integrated on-board NIC) is ok, and the
>hub is poop.  So I switched out the cable, same thing.
>  printenv tells me the box is doing tpe-link-test
>(true).  I really think the hub is in question,
>however if I replace the hub with another, I get teh
>same problem, all machines......  However, the hub I
>am replacing with is exactly the same make (Netgear
>ds104).  Are there any known issues with these hubs?
>I plan in the morning to use a totally different hub
>to make sure I'm not nutz.... 
>Is there a reason a U10 wouldn't like a 10/100 4-port
>Netgear?????  I've never worked with small boxes like
>these, so I wonder if there are any little "quirks" I
>am not aware of?  If nothing else email me words of
>advice like "hit it with a bigger hammer" ok? :-)
>
>Peer

I've had the same issue with them.  I had to use a 10mbps 4 port 
netgear to get my U10 to see the network even if I forced it into 
100/half it still failed to link.
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