Subject: Re: elink3 and ssto weirdness
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@nyc.deshaw.com>
From: Carl S Shapiro <cshapiro@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/06/1997 13:41:00
> There was a bug in libc where 127.1 was not being parsed, thus
> the loopback interface did not get set-up. This causes the above problem.

So, rebuilding libc and making a new boot disk should solve the problem?

> This is a very elusive bug that we've seen on the 3com cards related
> to the MGET macros. Try using the non macro versions.

It seems *all* of the 3Com cards I have encountered, *always* cause NetBSD
to panic when booting off of the ssto disk.  Also, pardon my ignorance, but
how do I avoid this MGET macro?


Carl