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From: Daniel Cafe <dcafe@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Getting a 500TX and if_de.ko working
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On Sun, 11 May 2003, Daniel Cafe wrote:

> I am currently running frebsd 4.7, and am trying to get it to work on a
> pc with a D-Link DFE-500TX card.
> 
> It is using the DEC Tulip 21140-AF chipset.
> 
> On bootup it says 
> de0 <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> at device 14.0 on pci0
> device_probe_and_attach: de0 attach returned 6

Just for archival purposes:

I managed to fix the problem. By changing the bios setting 
plug and play bios to no