Subject: Re: sn0: receive descriptors exhausted
To: Michael Joy <mjoy@kdi.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/29/1998 09:14:05
Michael Joy wrote:
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> I've gotten my system all configed and I can bootup just fine, but my
> network card does not work and the kernel spits this out at me every minute
> or two:
> 
> Sep 26 xx:xx:xx pluto /netbsd: sn0: receive descriptors exhausted
> 
> I am running the 1.3.2 Generic kernel on a Performa 630 w/ Sonic-T network
> card, 20 meg of ram, 1 gig seagate medalist HD, swapped 040 33 mghtz
> processor, and a 1 gig western digital ide drive. I have just finished
> REINSTALLING after formatting it and reconfiguring it from scratch. I
> followed the instructions here
> http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/howto/networking/OT.1.3.gif to a T. I'm
> confused...
> 
> how am I supposed to fix this? someone told me to try the latest build of
> the kernel but that kernel introduces another problem IT WON'T BOOT it hangs
> because of the scsi memory bug thing! so i'm kinda stuck right now... Any
> Ideas?

wait....

the m68k signal stuff should be fixed "any day now", so if you're lucky,
we'll have a new working snapshot sometime in the next week or so....

btw, did you try _both_ -current kernels?  i thought that only the sbc
kernels were affected by the bug in question...but maybe not...

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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