At 8:39 pm 22/3/96, Yoshihisa SUGIMOTO wrote:
>At  3:35 AM 96.3.22 -0500, Michael H. Lim wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I just installed an ethernet card (Asante MC32SI) into my PDS
>>slot and get the following message when I boot netbsd 1.1:
>>
>>aeo at nubus 0: address 00:00:94:31:89:81 type MacNIC II/E 32k
>>mem
>>
>>ae0: length does not match the next packet pointer
>>ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 5c next 00 stop80
>>ae0: NIC memory corrupt -invalid packet length 65280
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea what this all means? I have never used
>>UNIX on the admin side before, only on the user side, so it is a
>>challenge for me to make heads or tales of this stuff.
>>
>
>I once experienced this message. At that time, I returned to MacOS and
>zapped PRAM with TechTool, then set the Memory control panel and so on
>again.
>Next time I started MacBSD, I didn't see the message.
>
>Hope it helps,
>

Can anyone imagine why this would help?

Surely NIC memory has nothing to do with real memory or PRAM?

Jules

P.S. I;m not saying it doesn't help, I'm just wondering aloud...


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