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From: David Kirchner <dpk@notreal.com>
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Subject: Re: de0 is not working with supposedly supported SMC card
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Try adding '-link2' to your ifconfig line. That disables 100baseTX, so it
uses 10baseT.

-dpk

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Dan Roberts wrote:

> I'm building a new news server for my ISP, and we chose the SMC EtherPower
> 10/100 (Model 9332) because it came highly recommended, especially for use
> with FreeBSD.  Today I assembled the machine and made the boot floppy for
> 2.2.2.. when the machine powered up, the link light came on, however as
> soon as the boot up went by and de0: device was detected, the link light
> went out and the ethernet card ceased to operate.  I substituted a cheap
> NE2000 card to install the OS, and then tried compiling my own custom
> kernel, replaced the card and the same thing happened.