From: "Daniel Ling" <daniel at argentra dot com>

> I tried installing m0n0wall on a machine with Realtek embedded NICs.
> What happened is that prior to booting, the machine's NIC is connected to
> the Switch at 100mbit/full-duplex, but after booting, it becomes
> 10mbit/half-duplex and cannot communicate with all other machines on the
> network. The ping or any other function all fails.
> Hope someone might be able to help. Thanks.

Get into m0n0wall, and try bouncing the interface.  (Via a working nic, of 
course)  If it works, you can add a command in the config.xml to bounce the 
interface on boot.

                        Lee