Subject: Re: NIC memory corruption
To: Don Youdale <apollo@enigma.net>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/03/1996 18:01:33
>In using a WD8003EB NIC on NetBSD 1.1 i386 in a system with 32MB of memory,
>I get 'NIC memory corrupt, invalid packet length' messages repeated rapidly.
>Do you think that the memory hole effect is causing this? Would it be cured
>by changing the physmem in machdep.c to say 8 or 16MB?

I would seriously doubt it, since the card doesn't do bus-master DMA.

That said, I don't have any answer to what the problem is.

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