nve0 reports 10M but works at 100M, + date problem on Siemens board.

Hi freebsd-isp@xxxxxxxxxxx
2 problems seen on a Siemens board (with 6.2-RELEASE):
- nve0 reports 10M but works at 100Mbit/s.
- date time loss .
If anyone else has experience of these boards, please let me know:
board I tested:
http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Manuals/ShowDescription_KMT.asp?DokuID=200449
# Off web seemed newer on HTML page, but PDF is same Ed. 3
Paper manual marked A26361-D2000-Z120-1-7419, Ausgabe 3, August 2005
a26361-d2000-z120-en.pdf
Manual in English is inferior to German original, I guess
these first/primarily sold into servers in German speaking
markets. (So trying isp@ before perhaps hardware@ later).

Ethernet Problem:
With /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_nve0="inet 192.168.91.110 media autoselect"
ifconfig reports
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
although shows data actually moves at 100 Meg bit/sec.
Not sure if this is standard to driver or unique to mainboard.
This when connected to 3 different 100M switches (no 1G switch to test).
Ethernet Driver In FreeBSD is a binary BLOB
/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/nve/i386/ nvenetlib.README
"Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile..."
BIOS DVD seems to indicate same or similar BLOB for Linux & MS.
There's a newer Nvidia driver in current source:
ftp/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/sys/dev/nfe/
"Driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet"

Clock Problem:
Main board(s) have a strange problem with date after reboot
losing time (but only with FreeBSD, not with BIOS only or Linux ?! )
apparently mboards have 3 counters, it's being investigated by
others with new battery & resetting BIOS defaults etc.

I don't currently have access to these boards at a client site, but
in contact. Any experiences to swap/ comments ?

Julian
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