I did a search on google and this turned up:

Maybe it's related?

netbsd.current.users]Subject: fxp trouble
From: heidieker [at] cubeportal.com (Lars Heidieker)
Newsgroups: netbsd.current.users
Organization: TAC News Gateway
Date: Jul 11 2003 14:35:58

Hi,

the fxp driver tried to disable Dynamic Standby on an 865pe board with
an
82562EZ ship and that chip has a different eeprom layout, so this patch
will actually kill
the pci id that is saved in the eeprom for the lan chip.

the intel paper 29824221 states this should be done for the 82562ET chip
which has different eeprom layout then
82562EZ ergo trouble.

I guess this should be fixed pretty quick and I hope I get my board back
soon.......

Greetings,
Lars




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fors" <pikofarad@bredband.net>
To: "Rui Paulo" <goteki@pixeloverflow.com>
Cc: <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: NetBSD ruined my NIC??


> 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.
> >
> >
> > -
> > Rui Paulo <goteki@pixeloverflow.com>
> > 3F1E DB64 40B0 B027 1F3C  4A4A 1384 42C6 B05A DCB7
> >
> >   "Simplicity is the ultimate
> >     sophistication."
> >     -- Leonardo da Vinci
> >
> >
>
>
>