skc0: unknown media type: 0x0

[Mikhail Teterin]

> From the source code, the driver is trying to read the media type 
> setting from the eeprom and failing to get anything it understands.  
> This looks like only the second bit of info that is looked at from the 
> eeprom, and the first bit wouldn't give an error if it too was returning 
> 0x0.  This is just my quick reading of the code, though! I would 
> definitely be starting to think that adding the memory triggered a 
> hardware problem, perhaps static, or something physical.

I am very afraid of that :-( The motherboard was not cheap (although
refurbished) and replacing it is a pain even if it were free.

> Presumably you don't have another OS installed on the machine (<dread 
> look> Windows or Linux) because if it too couldn't see the ethernet that 
> would be a strong indicator of hardware problems.

I'm going to try installing something else. I need to check a slow-writing
harddrive too. Thanks,

	-mi