Google search tends to indicate your NE1 card is
ISA and has an interrupt besides that which the
default kernel is looking for, which is:

ne1	at isa? port 0x300 irq 10

(according to: 
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC?rev=1.641&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
)

And the most commonly prescribed fix is using the
floppy disk tool that came from the card manufacturer
to change its IRQ to 10, or, build a properly configured
kernel for the modified card's IRQ.


On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 00:18:05 -0500 (EST), radhika sambamurti
<radhika@88thstreet.com> wrote:

> dmesg|grep ne1 shows:
> 
> ne1:NE2000 Ethernet
> ne1:Ethernet address 00:40:.....
> ne1:device timeout