In article <19970817214456.25019.qmail@kechara.flame.org>,
	explorer@flame.org writes:
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Yes, the "de" driver had a memory leak in the probing code a while ago.
Do you have an unconnected ethernet board in your system?

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/