> The cards all work under the macOS, and the farallon diagnostic came up 
> with no problems.
> 
> The numbers of two of the cards are:
> 
> DP83902V
> DP83902AV

Those should be OK with the ae driver.  Are you sure that the cards
don't work in NetBSD?  I get that error from one of my cards sometimes
during boot.  If you get more than one of those messages, then
something's definitely wrong.  As far as I can tell, the message is
caused by traffic on the network during boot.

If you are getting that message a lot and you're trying 1.2.1,
please try a current kernel (I think 970402 is the most recent
on ftp.netbsd.org).

-allen

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              Allen Briggs - end killing - briggs@macbsd.com