Stoned koalas drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as Courtney R. Spencer 
exclaimed:

> Use the tlp* driver instead of de*.  I had the same trouble on an ds10
> using the de drivers, which I believe is older or less advanced.

Outstanding!

For anybody else who needs to do this, don't forget to add something like...

options TLP_MATCH_21140

to your kernel config file so that the kernel will know to try to use the 
tlp driver instead of the de driver.... see tlp(4) for more info...

tlp0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: DECchip 21140A Ethernet, pass 2.2
tlp0: interrupting at kn300 irq 48
tlp0: DEC DE500-AA, Ethernet address 00:00:f8:07:eb:ac
nsphy0 at tlp0 phy 5: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 0

tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1412
        address: 00:00:f8:07:eb:ac
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.1.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255


Thanks!

Jeff
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