On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Richard Roberts-Malpass wrote:

> I am having a problem booting RiscBSD with an I-cubed Ethernet 600 card
> present in the machine. I installed RiscBSD quite a while ago using the
> NetBSD 1.2A #4554 August 1996 kernel. Since I installed RiscBSD I have
> fitted an I-cubed ethernet card to my RiscPC, and now it freezes when
> booting at the line:
> 
> eh0 at podulebus0 [ netslot 0 ]: 1.2.
> 
> with the cursor remaining after the last full stop. I tried running it with
> a new 1.3 alpha kernel with the same result. RiscBSD booted up fine before
> the ethernet card was installed. Does anyone have any idea how I can solve
> this problem?
Hi,
  Add the option ehbug to the "other options" field in the boot loader.

Acording to the original author, certain revisions of the chip used on
the etherH card have a bug that means you get bus lockups if you try and
DMA more that 128 bytes from the packet memory in one go.

Cheers,
				Mark