I get the same problem on my LC III same eithernet card and with NetBSD
1.3.3

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:

> Every few boots or so, I get the message that my NIC memory is corrupt. I
> understand this if I force reboot the machine but not after rebooting from
> a 'halt.' Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> I have a sonic (brand) Card in my LC III expansion slot. It has a Macronix
> chipset. I am running NetBSD 1.3K. My shutdown procedure is as follows:
> 
> [sean@kristy]-~> su
> Password:
> [root@kristy]-~# halt
> NetBSD/mac68k doesn't trust itself to update RTC at shutdown.
> System halted.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean
> 
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