Subject: "le0: no carrier" on ss10 after install Solaris
To: Dr. John Refling <refling@comet.lbl.gov>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/01/2000 03:26:01
 > 
 > I have a sparcstation 10 which I had NetBSD running on for
 > a while (think it was 1.4.2).  This was running perfectly.
 > Then I installed solaris, to show to a friend.  That was running
 > well.  In both cases, the network worked fine.  Then in
 > reinstalled NetBSD 1.4.2, and every time at boot I get:
 > 
 > le0: controller failed to initialize
 > ledma0: error: CSR=a04600012 <ERR,DRAINING=0,IEN,DSBL_WR_INVAL>
 > 

A friend of mine & I had the same problem...no clue what caused it to
act this way, but we resolved it (strangely enough) by replacing the
64mb SIMMS in the machine with anything smaller.

No clue why this happened & why this fixed it...