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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!news.csos.orst.edu!CSOS.ORST.EDU!jlucas From: jlucas@CSOS.ORST.EDU (John Lucas) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD]: problems with WD8003 Message-ID: <2a9foo$iog@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> Date: 22 Oct 93 20:28:08 GMT Article-I.D.: jadzia.2a9foo$iog Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: csos.orst.edu I managed to get FreeBSD to install the 3 floppies and boot from the hard drive. Now I want to complete the installation via FTP. Therein lies the rub. During the boot phase, the ethernet NIC is correctly identified as a WD8003 (8-bit) NIC set at IRQ 5 I/O ports beginning at 0x280 and with shared memory at 0xd800. This NIC works fine under MS-DOA (both CUTCP on a packet driver and Novell with ODI) with the settings mentioned above. I created an /etc/hosts file with the proper addresses in it and issued: ifconfig ed0 inet moray.uvi.edu netmask 0xffffff00 The ifconfig itself issues no error, but within a few seconds I begin to get and endless sequence of "ed0: NIC memory corrupt invalid packet size 65535" (as nearly as I can recall). If I ignore the messages screwing up my screen and issue: ifconfig ed0 I see that the proper address and netmask is in fact assigned. But the errors continue and no network traffic is passed. Any folklore for my problem? -- | John Lucas (809) 776-9200 x1335 | | Academic Computing (809) 776-9238 (FAX) | | University of the Virgin Islands | | jlucas@csos.orst.edu (for now) NIC Handle: JL423 |