Subject: Re: problems with Dell-branded 3com card
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/11/2002 14:51:33
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:33:30PM -0400, Steve Bellovin wrote:

 > ex0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0: 3Com 3c575CT Ethernet
 > ex0: MAC address 00:01:03:a8:ab:2f
 > ex0: can't allocate download descriptors, error = 12
 > 
 > What does that mean?  Any workarounds?

Hm.  12 is ENOMEM.  It probably wasn't able to allocate a contiguous
region of memory for them.  A reboot should work aorund the problem,
because it has the effect of de-fragmenting memory.

Sigh, I should rework how descriptors are allocated in network drivers.

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