It's not strange, it's how it works. The FastEthernet hardware needs DMA in order to work and the Mediator is not able to do DMA into Amiga memory. So you need some sort of memory on the PCI bus which is used for DMA and then the data can be copied from PCI memory to Amiga memory by the processor.
The only PCI memory which is currently recognised by the Mediator drivers is the memory on a supported graphics card.
Bye,
Thomas
