Hi again! I also played with the new eepro100 nic and found these things:
1. i82557b seem to work with http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/sidux/release/SIDUX-2007-01-200702210759-CHAOS.ISO (see http://www.sidux.com/Article116.html , it is based on debian sid), but 2. i82551 and i82559er with the same livecd sooner or later will cause qemu to crash like this with no backtrace available: % gdb work/qemu-snapshot-2007-04-05_05/i386-softmmu/qemu qemu.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"... Core was generated by `qemu'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.4...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.4 Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libSDL.so.11...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libSDL.so.11 Reading symbols from /lib/libutil.so.5...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libutil.so.5 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libvga.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libvga.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libvgl.so.4...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libvgl.so.4 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libaa.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libaa.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libusbhid.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libusbhid.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libncurses.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x00000000 in ?? () [New LWP 100186] (gdb) q (this first occured when playing with -smb in runlevel 2 which can be mounted like this: # mount.smbfs //10.0.2.4/qemu /mnt and then dd'ing a bigger file to /dev/null, I was trying to test network throughput... but once it even crashed like that just while typing the mount command.) 3. And with http://ftp.us.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0.1-RELEASE/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso (see http://www.freesbie.org/ , based on FreeBSD 6.2) i82557b and i82559er worked, but 4. i82551 attached but would not receive packets. Hope this is helpful to some :) Juergen