Well, it was through no fault of the empeg that the Ethernet wasn't working. My Iomega iConnect that is my music server needed some patches applied to the kernel in order for the Ethernet to work at any speed other than 1000baseT.

Using a straight-through cable now works thanks to the Auto-MDI/X on the server and it connects at 10baseT half duplex.

Is there any way for the empeg to play a network stream like http://server:9000/stream.mp3?