Subject: RE: sn0: receive descriptors exhausted
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Michael Joy <mjoy@kdi.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/29/1998 18:54:01
well I tried both current one both lockup booting at some point in the boot
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Wood [mailto:cwood@ichips.intel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 11:14 AM
> To: Michael Joy
> Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: sn0: receive descriptors exhausted
>
>
> Michael Joy wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > 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.
>
> --
> Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - PMD Intel Corporation
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