> some more thinking and discussion with my office mate made me
> realize that I'd not compiled and installed the new gcc where the
> infamous "elink3.c/mbuf.h" bug was fixed, and I presume 3c589
> also uses the common elink3.c driver.  (Gcc wasn't installed
> because my "make build" of two days ago bombed out compiling
> usr.bin/fstat).  So...  I'm currently rebuilding gcc and I hope
> this will make the problem go away.

That fixed it -- great!

Regards,

- H=E5vard