Subject: Re: noncontingous DMA segments with mc0 at obio
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/28/2006 05:38:33
khym@azeotrope.org wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:16:00PM -0600, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
>> Could this be why the 3.1 upgrade on my 840 has been having problems???
> 
> I don't know; what problems are you having? If you get a message during
> boot about "mc0: receive DMA buffer not contiguous! Try compiling with
> "options MC_RXDMABUFS=2"", and the onboard ethernet doesn't work, then
> you've run into this problem. If not, then it's something unrelated.

This is, in fact, the message I'm getting at boot.  (Plain as day; I 
just hadn't bothered to watch it closely before.)  So it does explain 
why I was unable to telnet/ssh into it.  Is there a simple fix or am I 
best off falling back to 2.1?

Tim
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Tim & Alethea
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