In article <199812190719.JAA03058@guava.araneus.fi>,
	gson@araneus.fi (Andreas Gustafsson) writes:
> I have long been suffering from the exact same problem with an old
> 21040-based BNC/UTP Ethernet card which the de driver identifies as a
> "SMC 8432BT 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3".  This is also on NetBSD/i386
> 1.3.2.
> 

Similar problem with a cnet 10/100 MBit card under current:
de0: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2

Its connected to a 10 MBit Hub. I have to ifconfig it to correct Speed and 
Media Type, or it probes forever.

Seems to me, the de driver is kind of broken, at least when probing.
-- 
Mario Kemper
magick@bundy.lip.owl.de