>From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
>
>> >Is the ep drivers really screwed up or something?  or is it
>> >just *me*???
>>
>> I'm using 3c509's in several different machines without trouble.
>
>But not with a fresh enough -current to expose the problem, I
>guess.

Or maybe I'm just really lucky?

tardis# dmesg
NetBSD 1.2G (C466DE) #0: Mon Jul 21 10:09:41 EDT 1997
    entropy@tardis.bernstein.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/C466DE
[...]
ep0 at isa0 port 0x200-0x20f irq 5: 3Com 3C509 Ethernet
ep0: MAC address 00:20:af:9e:1b:32
ep0: 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 5:3 Rx:Tx split, utp/aui/bnc (default bnc)
[...]

>There's a compiler bug which prevents correct compilation with
>optimization of the elink3.c file in face of the recent changes
>to mbuf.h with the 'do { ... } while(0)' constructs.
>
>Compile elink3.c without optimization and the driver will work
>again.

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