Cable modem to sunqe or sunhme card

I'm running Debian 3 ultralinux(2.4.23) on my sparc64 machine, and get
this message over and over again as the interface going to the cable
modem goes up and down. I suspect it has to do with speed negotiation as
putting a hub between the cable modem and the server solves the problem,
but i don't want the hub there. does anyone know what I could do to get
the interface stable.
thanx
Matt
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
eth1: transmit timed out, resetting
eth1: Happy Status 00000000 TX[000003ff:00000101]
eth1: Link is up using internal transceiver at 10Mb/s, Half Duplex.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
eth1: transmit timed out, resetting
eth1: Happy Status 00000000 TX[000003ff:00000101]
eth1: Link is up using internal transceiver at 10Mb/s, Half Duplex.

I'll add something to this, apperently setting the speed manually isn't
the answer, I've done this with ethtool. It help but not much.
Matthew wrote:
> I'm running Debian 3 ultralinux(2.4.23) on my sparc64 machine, and get
> this message over and over again as the interface going to the cable
> modem goes up and down. I suspect it has to do with speed negotiation as
> putting a hub between the cable modem and the server solves the problem,
> but i don't want the hub there. does anyone know what I could do to get
> the interface stable.
> thanx
> Matt
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> eth1: transmit timed out, resetting
> eth1: Happy Status 00000000 TX[000003ff:00000101]
> eth1: Link is up using internal transceiver at 10Mb/s, Half Duplex.
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> eth1: transmit timed out, resetting
> eth1: Happy Status 00000000 TX[000003ff:00000101]
> eth1: Link is up using internal transceiver at 10Mb/s, Half Duplex.
>