Subject: Re: NFS hangs on Mac port of NetBSD 1.2
To: None <isaac@ticalc.org>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/08/1996 01:19:01
> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Greg Earle wrote:
> 
>> I see some occasional boot-time glitches with this card:
>> 
>> ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
>> ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 19 next 00 stop 80
>> ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280
>> 
>> Another time it didn't even configure it at all:
>> 
>> ae0: failed to clear shared memory at 0x7ab7400 - check configuration
> 
> Are you booting up will all extensions off?  I got similar errors when I
> failed to disable MacTCP prior to booting NetBSD.

Thanks for the tip.  Indeed, booting with Extensions off seems to cure this
problem; I haven't seen any of these diagnostics since then.

Back to the NFS problems ... :-)

	- Greg