On Fri, 16 Apr, 2004 at 12:32:14AM +0200, it was scribed by kiers@original.xs4all.nl that:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:21:18AM +0200, Peter Fors wrote:
> > Because the NIC was working perfectly the seconds before I booted up NetBSD,
> > and stopped working right after having done so, which makes it highly likely
> > that whatever reprogramming the NetBSD driver did, did in fact screw the
> > settings in the EEPROM (the hardware itself is working allright according to
> > the Intel diagnostics, but the contents of the EEPROM is faulty)...
> 
> Happened to me and other ppl too, see
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=22120
> 
> Your NIC is probably lost forever.

I'd have to report a loss as well--yay Dell warrantys tho!
(this was a Dell Optiplex SX260--no pci slots!)
 
Jonathan