Subject: Re: NIC memory corrupt!?
To: Harry <Harry.Weppner@gmx.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/05/1997 14:01:28
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> Heres some of the output from dmesg. Just wondering what the ae0 error
> messages could mean. Its an Asante MacCon/30 Ethernet card and seems to
> be working fine w/ telnet, ftp, afpd, ...

Does this happen any time other than during boot? This type of message can
happen if a packet was being received at some point of the boot process.
It's ok if it's only happening once during boot.

> Cheerio, Harry.
> 
> NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA (GENERIC) #50: Sun Nov 23 11:47:56 PST 1997
>     root2@wormey:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
> Apple Macintosh SE/30  (68030)
> cpu: delay factor 53
> real mem = 8388608
> avail mem = 4960256
> using 128 buffers containing 524288 bytes of memory
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> ae0 at nubus0 slot 9: MacCon Ethernet, 16KB memory
> ae0: Ethernet address 00:00:94:00:91:09
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
> ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 10 next 00 stop 40
> ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280

Take care,

Bill