Thanks for the information!

But it seems that so little is being written to the EEPROM, so it should be
possible to reverse the damage? Is there some kind of utility to do change
it back, or "reverse hack" of the fxp driver? Unfortunately I don't know
much about NetBSD driver programming :-(

/ Peter Fors

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bert Kiers" <kiers@original.xs4all.nl>
To: "Peter Fors" <pikofarad@bredband.net>
Cc: "Rui Paulo" <goteki@pixeloverflow.com>; <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: NetBSD ruined my NIC??


> 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
>