I have a DEC 21143-PC and a Linksys 4.1 NIC. The linksys cannot be used (only dc0), this is the related part of dmesg: dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd400-0xd47f mem 0xdfffff80-0xdfffffff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0 dcphy0: <Intel 21143 NWAY media interface> on miibus0 dcphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc0: Ethernet address: 08:00:2b:c4:d5:55 dc0: if_start running deferred for Giant dc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] dc1: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xdfeff800-0xdfeffbff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci0 dc1: MII without any PHY! device_attach: dc1 attach returned 6 How-To-Repeat: N/A
Nine years ago on FreeBSD 5.x? I do not have that software and hardware anymore.