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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!budzyn From: budzyn@cps.msu.edu (Joseph D Budzyn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: ethernet error Date: 25 Aug 1994 00:12:58 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33gnma$ttk@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cps.msu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] I posted about this a little while ago, but I did not get an answer that fixed my problem, so here goes... NetBSD has a problem with SMC ethernet cards. With the eight bit card it keeps popping up this message: /netbsd: ed0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun. Now I have tried it with a sixteen bit card, and the same thing happened, although less frequently. I have tried many different cards and different speeds of machines. It still fails on a 486DX-33 with the eight bit card. When it fails it locks the ethernet and has a high chance of failing again. It is almost as if the buffer is not getting deallocated. When I run FreeBSD on the same 486 with the same card or on a 386SX-20, there is no problem whatsoever. I have briefly looked at the card driver source, but they seem very different. Does anyone have any ideas or a patch?