Something Wicked happened?

[Jon Lewis]

I was building another 4 port tulip based router box today, and had
trouble with one of the cards.  It seemed to have its transceiver found
twice, and generally did not work for sending/receiving packets.  It also
printed an error message I'd not seen before:

Nov  5 13:38:18 hammerhead kernel: tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
[eth0-2 messages clipped...they're all new Netgear cards]
Nov  5 13:38:18 hammerhead kernel: eth3: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xb000, 00
a0 cc 39 03 a1, IRQ 15.
Nov  5 13:38:18 hammerhead kernel: eth3:  MII transceiver found at MDIO
address 1, config 1000 status 7809.
Nov  5 13:38:18 hammerhead kernel: eth3:  MII transceiver found at MDIO
address 9, config 1000 status 7809.

While running tcpdump looking for any traffic, I got these:

Nov  5 13:49:05 hammerhead kernel: eth3: Promiscuous mode enabled.
Nov  5 13:50:30 hammerhead last message repeated 2 times
Nov  5 13:50:35 hammerhead kernel: eth3: Something Wicked happened!
ffffffff.
Nov  5 13:50:41 hammerhead kernel: eth3: Promiscuous mode enabled.
Nov  5 13:50:43 hammerhead last message repeated 3 times
Nov  5 13:50:54 hammerhead kernel: eth3: Something Wicked happened!
ffffffff.
Nov  5 13:50:54 hammerhead last message repeated 60 times

IRQ 15 is not in use by IDE1, and swapping the card for an identical one
solved the problem.  Is it a safe bet this is my first DOA Netgear card?

BTW...while building another of these boxes, I found one Netgear card
who's MAC address label was off-by-one on the last byte.  I thought that
was kind of odd.

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