> Grubbing thru these mailing lists, I now find this is a more
> or less well known problem, and that the explanation is that
> some shabby probe code for a CD-rom (mcd0 ??) is rewriting the
> NVRAM on my network card, and that I can fumble around with DOS
...
> 2) look at 0x308 - 0x30d to see if the boards 6-byte ethernet
> address is there.

this may sound like a horrible hack, but maybe that device driver
needs to look at 0x308 and following and see if what's there
matches the prefix for a WD/SMC ethernet address before doing the
part of the probe that's destructive.

Keith