I tracked down a couple of $15 fxp-using ethernet cards but am having
some troubles with them.  (The machine is running -current, on an AMD64.)

The fxp-related lines from dmesg are:

 /~~~ dmesg

fxp0 at pci1 dev 7 function 0: i82558 Ethernet, rev 5
fxp0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 19 (irq 5)
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:72:7f:87
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

 \___ dmesg

The chipset should be 82558 B (that's what's printed on the
chip).  Should there be anything in dmesg to suggest the "B"?

When I try to use it, though, all I get are timeouts (no LED
activity to even suggest network packets are trying to move):

fxp0: device timeout
fxp0: device timeout
fxp0: device timeout
fxp0: device timeout
fxp0: device timeout
fxp0: device timeout


Any likely explanations?  /etc/ifconfig.fxp0 just has one line,
"inet psocrates" (and "psocrates" is defined in /etc/hosts).


Thanks in advance.


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