Subject: Re: I have some problem about my LAN card (NE2000)
To: Brian D. Carlstrom <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@entropic.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/30/1994 13:05:03
>bdc@ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)  wrote:
> >      > I've noticed that the 1.0 GENERICAHA kernel only recognizes the
> >      > 3C509 the first time it comes up - after a reboot, it doesn't
> >      > find it.  Sigh.  This is in a Compaq ProSigma with an EISA.  The
> >      > 3C579 seems to work better - it's an EISA card.
> > reported this multiple times to Herb Peyerl but he says "works fine for me"
> > maybe it depends on the external interface used?
>
>Well what can I say... It *does* work for me... I have 5 or 6 machines 
>running various dates of -current and 1.0 and am not seeing the problem.

Forgive me for stating the obvious ... but have people with the problem tried
putting debugging printf()'s in the ep probe routine to figure out why it's
failing?

--Ken