Subject: Re: vx & asante ether
To: noud de brouwer <noud@knot.nl>
From: Yoshihisa SUGIMOTO <sugimoto@sums.shiga-med.ac.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/24/1995 11:27:18
Hi,

At 11:30 PM 95.12.23 +0100, noud de brouwer wrote:
>*Asante MCNB REV. A with DP83902AV
>
>on bootup it says:
>
>ae0 at nubus0: address 00:00:94:60:71:40, type MacCon NuBus-A, 32 mem,
>ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
>ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 0f next 00 stop 80
>ae0: NIC memory corrupt - Invalid packet length 65280
>---and then the bootprocess stops---

I once experienced the same message on SE/30 with Asante MC+30IET. It 
worked fine previously with the same environment, but one day it complained.
At that time, the bootprocess did not stop but ae0 was unavailable.
I rebooted to MacOS and zapped PRAM with TechTool. After enabling 32 bit
addressing, NetBSD started to work correctly. The kernel was compiled from 
the source around Dec. 7.
I don't know MacCon NuBus-A card, but I recommend you to try it again
after zapping PRAM.

Hope it helps,

Yoshihisa SUGIMOTO, M.D., Ph. D. - sugimoto@sums.shiga-med.ac.jp
Department of Medicine I / Medical Information Center
Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, JAPAN
Tel +81-775-48-2213  FAX +81-775-43-5839