that actually sounds like the card is trying to operate in forced
100megabit mode when connected to a 10megabit hub, I've seen those
symptoms before when a friend brought his windows box over to my (at the
time) 10 megabit only LAN and he had his card locked in at 100megabit..
-Pat


On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, James Macnicol wrote:

> 	I downloaded the latest NetBSD 1.5 \alpha snapshot on Sunday
> (I have a ZLXp-E2 so this is the only version that'll work for me).
> Everything is okay except for my DE500 network card: after NetBSD
> initializes the card my hub is a sorry sight because the activity
> light for that port is always on and the collision light on the hub is
> also always on.  Needless to say, I can't access the network from
> NetBSD.  I remember seeing this behaviour with early versions of
> RedHat Linux too, although the later kernels seemed to have fixed it.
> Does anyone know what is going on, and is there a fix or workaround ?
> 
> 	System is a 433MHz AlphaPC 164, DE500, Asus SCSI card, ZLXp-E2,
> 128MB.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> James Macnicol
> jamesm@faceng.anu.edu.au
> 

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