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.

-- 
Bert Kiers, !MCSE && 0xFF, frique d'ordinateur