Holy $H1T!!, that was it.  I set the card to 10MBit full-duplex and it now
boots into multiuser mode.
FYI, 
I used the userland tarballs from 01/16/2001.  haven't tried the June
distro yet.  I also used the kernel that Chuck Silvers posted today.

I noticed that the NIC worked much more slowly when I forced
full-duplex.  Interesting.

cheers

Andy

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Andy Michaels wrote:

> Cool, actually, I started snooping around and discovered how to set it
> myself (a testament to the quality of the documentation of NetBSD)  I'll
> give it a shot.  thanks again,
> 
> andy
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> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Andrew Gillham wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:41:00AM -0400, Andy Michaels wrote:
> > > nope, didn't try that.  How would one go about hardcoding the interface to
> > > 10Mbit?  Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Andy
> > 
> > If the server is NetBSD use: 'ifconfig xyz0 media utp'
> > Actually utp is an alias for '10baseT', but you can look at the possible
> > media types with 'ifconfig -m xyz0'.
> > You can see what media is currently in use by looking at the line that begins
> > with 'media:' and look for the value inside the parentheses.
> > e.g.: 
> > 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
> > 
> > This is in auto-negotiation mode and has negotiated 100Mbit/s full-duplex with
> > the other end.
> > 
> > -Andrew
> > 
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