Graham Jenkins writes:
> I still don't have an answer to the following. Does this mean I'll
> have to put Linux on our workstations instead? Or perhaps OpenBSD?
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> > I have a real problem with using SMC8216C cards on several of our machines;
> > neither the boot kernel nor the real kernel detects that its cable is
> > plugged into its 10BaseT/UTP port. And the 'media' parameter for 'ifconfig'
> > won't accept 'UTP' either.

Could you post the output of 'dmesg' for this card?  I have several, so I
can test this later tonight.  

-Andrew
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