>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.

Well..they told me getting that length-messages doesn't harm anything.

Create a file in the /etc/ dir called hostname.ae0 containing some like:

inet 193.78.240.14 0xffffff00 193.78.240.255
dest 193.78.240

See /etc/netstart for a description. This 'activates' the ethercard. Look
at 'netstat -i' to see the diff. and 'netstat -rn' to see other hosts being
known.

Also create/edit the folowing files as well:

/etc/myname
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/hosts

Use /etc/netstart and 'man' (f.i. man resolv.conf) to get extra information
about those files.
~n