smc etherpower II bug/problem

["James Ziebarth" <ziebartj_(_at_)_hotmail_(_dot_)_com>]

OK.  I have run OpenBSD 2.7 on a computer of mine that has had a bad power 
supply and has thus not worked for the last couple months.  This computer 
has an SMC Etherpower II PCI network card in it.  I decided to just 
reinstall OpenBSD 2.8 from scratch and found that suddenly the NIC wouldn't 
work.  I got an error message along the lines of Timeout x Bytes, It appears 
that we can Continue... where x was any number from 0 to 2. This happened 
during the configuration of the network card during the OpenBSD 
installation.  I tried all the different media options that are or seem to 
be compatible with my network, and I always got that same error message 
during and after the installation.  As a second idea, I decided to reinstall 
2.7 and then try upgrading to 2.8 using the upgrade option, so I installed 
2.7 and everything worked fine.  However, when I went to upgrade to 2.8, I 
got the same error message.  Is this a bug with version 2.8, or is there a 
patch already available, or is there something I am doing wrong that I have 
failed to see here?  Please let me know what you find out.  Thanks.

- James A. Ziebarth
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