Ok, I've got vge0 working again...pulling the plug on the box and 
leaving it for ~30 minutes was enough to make NetBSD boot again.

Robert P. Thille wrote:
> 
> I swear I had this working before.  I may have messed something up in 
> the BIOS, but the only thing I know I did since this was working was 
> boot an Fedora 7 Live CD on the computer.  Now Ethernet is broken...
Turns out that this is reproducible. Just booting the Fedora 7 Live CD 
is enough to make NetBSD fail to configure the VT612X chip properly. 
Turning the system off with the ATX power switch isn't enough to reset it.

I'll file a PR when I get a chance.

> I've got a VIA EPIA EN15000G with a VT612x gigE ethernet chip.
> I'm running CURRENT from 2007-06-<mumble>.  The ethernet used to work, 
> but now on boot I get output like this:
> vge0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: VIA VT612X Gigabit Ethernet (rev. 0x11)
> vge0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18 (irq 10)
> vge0: Ethernet address: 73:fa:73:fa:73:fa
> vge0: MII read timed out
> vge0: failed to start MII autopoll
> 
> scanpci output has:
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0e function 0x00: vendor 0x1106 device 0x3119
>  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6120/VT6121/VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
> 
> ifconfig output gives:
> vge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> ...
> enabled=0
> 
> In the BIOS I've got APIC Enabled, and Plug & Play disabled (though I 
> had the problem with it enabled as well).  I'm on the latest bios rev. 
> 1.07.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 


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