Well, in the 90’s I managed to essentially brick two NIC’s by tinkering with the tulip driver on command line. In the distro I used it had to be done manually and I still have no idea as to what happened inside those NIC’s, but they sure didn’t work ever again. Yes, I made the same mistake twice.


Yeah, I had the exact same problem as OP, except that I didn’t lose my virginity. Also, Gentoo won’t boot.