On 05-Jan-00 Todd Whitesel wrote:
> With my TADPOLE3GX I have often run into an annoying buglet: suppose I forget
> to plug in the le0 transceiver before booting. Once I discover that I can't
> use the network, I plug in the transceiver but ifconfig down/up does not get
> it working. When I finally give up and reboot with the transceiver in, it
> comes up fine and normality is restored.
> 
> Any ideas why this might be happening? I admit I didn't do a PR search yet.
> 

Happened to me too.. The problem is.. that when you boot without the dongle..
the le0 driver changes to 10BaseT mode.  Simply toggle the media mode back to
10base5 and everything will work again.

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