Subject: Re: ethernet problems
To: Armen Babikyan <armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/22/1997 09:51:47
Armen Babikyan wrote:
> 
> well, i finally got an ethernet card for my powermac!
> but unfortunately, i can't get my powermac and IIvx to talk to each other,
> so i'm going to try setting it up in NetBSD at least, on the IIvx.
> when i installed nubus ethernet extensions, they must have done something
> to my card, because i'm seeing wierd stuff now:
> ae0 at nubus0: address 00:00:94:60:7b:a2, type MacCon NuBus-A , 32k mem.
> ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
> ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 06 next 00 stop 80
> ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280
> i don't quite understand why it says that...(could this be a good sign that
> the mac software did install properly? :-)

Check the FAQ, I'm pretty sure this one is in there.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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