On torsdag, aug 22, 2002, at 19:31 Europe/Copenhagen, Manuel Bouyer 
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:21:02AM -0700, Daniel Eggert wrote:
>> Oh well, oh well:
>>
>> I have a DECchip 21140 NIC, for which the de(4) driver doesn't work 
>> (It can't even see the mac address during boot). When I use the 
>> tlp(4) driver instead and use ifconfig on the device I get:
>>   # ifconfig tlp0
>>   tlpanic: tlp_2114x_isv_tmsw_get
>>   Stopped in ifconfig at cpu_Debugger+0x10: lwz r0, r1, 0x14,
>>   db>
>> Is there any hope for me? Should I file this as a bug to the author 
>> of tlp(4)? Thanks for any help.
>
> Are you sure your adapter work ? As both drivers fail, I would check
> hardware first.
>

I'm sure they work because they work under Darwin 
(http://developer.apple.com/darwin/) on a differen machine.

/Daniel