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From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ifconfig
Date: 11 Jun 1993 22:23:09 -0400
Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn
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broughton@nicad3.nic.bc.ca writes:

>I have an NE1000 clone, when I ifconfig I keep getting something 
>like

>startartstartartstartartstartartstartartstartartstartartstartartstartart

Thats funny, I haven't seen anybody complain about that in a *LONG* time.
You need to rebuild the kernel, if you have the sources, or download a
new copy of the kernel from an FTP site.  Seems that someone (Bill?) put
some debugging code in the distributed kernel, but took it out of the
sources.  Once I recompiled, everything was fine.

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