Subject: Re: NIC memory corruption
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/04/1996 08:52:27
> >In using a WD8003EB NIC on NetBSD 1.1 i386 in a system with 32MB of memory,
> >I get 'NIC memory corrupt, invalid packet length' messages repeated rapidly.
> >Do you think that the memory hole effect is causing this? Would it be cured
> >by changing the physmem in machdep.c to say 8 or 16MB?
> I would seriously doubt it, since the card doesn't do bus-master DMA.
> That said, I don't have any answer to what the problem is.

Last time this happened it was the floppy-driver probing for
a non-existant B:-drive, and the fix was to change
'fd*' to 'fd0' in the Config file. Anyway it's some
driver probing in the wrong place, you might try fd first.

Cheerio

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