[Ryan Fox]

Damn...
This just happened with absolutely no warning, no earlier symptoms , nothing . System boots with the media disconnected, and simply states that ef0 is down.
No other 'complaints'. BUT as soon as I connect anything to the network port, new cable switch, router, anything.. It keeps on spewing out the following:
ALERT: ef0 rx SSRAM hardware parity error
This happens on both rx and tx, and gets to the point where it throws a kernel panic and causes CPU0 to halt and the system to reset.
Edit: noticed something else. Analogue audio output stopped working completely, only optical out functions.

Any suggestions, workarounds?