Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu> asked to help;

> I finally had some time to look at the TC Ethernet card in the Alpha
> 3000/xxx last weekend, and think I've got it fixed.  If anyone wants to
> verify the fix, here's the patch.  I can also provide a 1.6 GENERIC kernel
> if needed.
> ...

I turned on my DEC3000/300 with PMAD-AA TC option card attached
this evening.   Your patch worked for mine.  Kernel source tree is
1.6_STABLE fetched a few days ago.  My root filesystem sits on
DKA0, sole disk in my system.

# ifconfig le1
le1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:2b:1a:bf:b3
        media: Ethernet manual
        status: active
        inet 10.1.128.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.128.255
# ping -c 3 10.1.128.45
PING 10.1.128.45 (10.1.128.45): 48 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.1.128.45: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.406 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.128.45: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.438 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.128.45: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.348 ms

----10.1.128.45 PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.348/1.397/1.438/0.046 ms
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Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology