Sigh, I hate people who change things :-)

SMC have changed their brillian 10/100 card, NetBSD probes it but
you can't actually ping anything, BSDI does the same. I'd assume
FreeBSD and OpenBSD will also do the same.

Anyone know how different these cards are?

This is how it probes:

Dec 10 18:29:23 NetBSD /netbsd: de1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: DC21140 [10-100Mb
/s] pass 2.0
Dec 10 18:29:23 NetBSD /netbsd: de1: Ethernet address 00:00:c0:a8:e7:e9
Dec 10 18:29:23 NetBSD /netbsd: de1: enabling 100baseTX UTP port
Dec 10 18:29:23 NetBSD /netbsd: de1: interrupting at irq 11

I am missing something obvious?

Cheers,
Neil.
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