In message <20041105182147.GA12294@blackmilk.localzone.fr>, fab writes:
>Hi,
>I don't know if this is the same kind of bug, but with my nebsd-2.0 box
>I have the "umass buffer allocation" error quite often, which can be
>solved by creating a 100MB file and then removing it.
>When I insert my pccard NIC I sometimes have something like:
>
>rtk0: can't allocate recv buffer, error = 12
>I can solve the problem by creating a 100MB file and rm'ing it...
>
>Isn't it a more general NetBSD bug about memory allocation ?
>

It's a general, well-known bug.  For USB, Frank van der Linden has 
posted a work-around which I'd like to see committed to the -current 
tree, and pulled up for 2.1.  

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb