Having the same issue and have done that, running an mfsu, into a MV transformer into an MFE and everything IC2 works (induction furnace and basic machines with transformer upgrades) but no advanced machines work.
I have the sorter set up properly but the filter machine pulling stuff from the chest tends to fill up and stop pulling. even tried the one without the filter UI and it still does it.
Okay so I got a filter set up next to my chest and then into a sorting machine. but the UI on the filter keeps filling up with blocks which seems to cause it to jam and not pull items from the chest, if you clear out the UI for the filter it starts going again. is that supposed to happen or what am I doing wrong here? oh and this is SMP just to make sure.