e1000e startup problem

I have a fedora 14 server here who's ethernet interface seems to take just a bit too long to establish a link. Whenever it starts it is inaccessible over the network, which is a real pain for a server. I have to go over with the monitor and keyboard, crawl under the desk... When I try to restart the network interface with "service network restart" I get something that looks like : Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0...[big number] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready..... [FAILED] [big number] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex... Which sounds to me like a timeout was just a bit too short. If I try a few times in a row suddenly it works. [kevin@backup ~]$ uname -a Linux backup.hooperlab 2.6.35.14-96.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 11:59:56 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [kevin@backup ~]$ lspci -nn | grep -i eth 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) [8086:108c] (rev 03) 05:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:1076] (rev 05) [kevin@backup ~]$ dmesg | tail [ 1633.233297] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X [ 1633.284094] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X [ 1633.285079] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 1642.265283] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X [ 1642.316094] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X [ 1642.317556] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 1647.280547] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX [ 1647.285563] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO [ 1647.291153] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 1657.802008] eth0: no IPv6 routers present