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From: Rick Warner <rwarner@resonate-inc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: SMC EtherPower 10/100 problems with 2.1.0/5
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 10:58:21 -0800
Organization: ViaNet Communications
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I just received 4 new PC's, all with SMC EtherPower 10/100 NICs.  
I loaded 2.1.5 on these PC's and could not get them to insert
onto our network.  I downgraded one to 2.1.0, and still no
luck.  We have a dozen machines here with the identical config all
running 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 without a hitch.  So I looked at the SMC cards
and they are smaller than the SMC cards I received in the past, with
a reduced number of chips.  I put an older SMC card in one of the 
new PC's and it started right up.  So, does anyone know what has
changed and why the if_de driver does not like the new cards?  Any
hope for a quick fix?

- rick warner