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From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To: Jim Marker <jemstone@ifx.net>
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Jim Marker wrote:

> I have a Compaq Pent Pro 200 with 64 megs running FreeBSD 2.2.2.  I just
> added a LinkSys Etherfast 100Base-TX card to it.  It is configured as
> follows:
> 
> de0:  flags=c843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.1.4  netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         ether 00:40:05:36:b4:bf

I had this exact same problem with an SMC card, and found that upgrading
to -current's if_de.c and related files fixed the problem.  I don't know
if it happened yet, but there was discussion of moving this driver into
2.2.5 (which I think is a good thing).