In article <Law11-F50AExikzbhTM00013980@hotmail.com>,
Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello. Yesterday when I was compiling ap-php4, my Thinkpad R30 notebook 
>hangs there, displaying some flashing vertical color bar. After a 
>powerdown-up, when it is about to finish POST it shows some flasing horizon 
>bar and hangs there (I'm no kidding!) After several reboot, finally it 
>successfully done POST, and began to load OS. Then I was prompted 2099 is 
>not a reasonable year, and netbsd (1.6.1-RELEASE) hangs during kernel 
>loading (began to display bars, so I am not sure how kernel is loaded). 
>
>I worked on it several hours, reset BIOS settings, adjust time, use old 
>kernel and so like. Finally I get the netbsd running, except the built-in 
>NIC never work anymore. It is fxp0. Any operation with the NIC (including 
>assigning ip address) cause a "fxp0 timed out" prompt. I'm afraid the 
>ethernet card will never work in future. 

I think the following might be relevant:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2003/07/11/0005.html

You can change the kernel source to put the eeprom setting back, compile,
and reboot.  That should make the card work the same as it was before.

>Then I pick up my old Ed-MAX PCMCIA 10MHz ethernet card, which is 
>successfully detected as ne0. Assiging an ip address to it always cause a 
>panic (without any prompt, just hang there). That card was pretty an 
>expansive one, I had been using it for years when I use FreeBSD on my 
>ancient 360XD Thinkpad, at that time it is ed0 as far as I can remember, 
>but I don't find any ether drive called ed in NetBSD.

What is the panic and backtrace?

christos