Because the NIC was working perfectly the seconds before I booted up NetBSD,
and stopped working right after having done so, which makes it highly likely
that whatever reprogramming the NetBSD driver did, did in fact screw the
settings in the EEPROM (the hardware itself is working allright according to
the Intel diagnostics, but the contents of the EEPROM is faulty)...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rui Paulo" <goteki@pixeloverflow.com>
To: "Peter Fors" <pikofarad@bredband.net>
Cc: <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: NetBSD ruined my NIC??


> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:53:33 +0200
> "Peter Fors" <pikofarad@bredband.net> wrote:
>
> > 2. Why doesn't NetBSD even ask a single question before doing this kind
of
> > dangerous modification to the hardware?
> >
> Why are you so sure it was NetBSD's fault ? Several uncommon situations
could happen that could lead to EEPROM destruction.
>
>
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> Rui Paulo <goteki@pixeloverflow.com>
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