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From: ats@first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: ed0 NIC mem corrupt
Message-ID: <5723@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 16 Oct 94 23:44:40 GMT
References: <37maef$a7r@winx03.informatik.uni>
Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de
Organization: GMD-FIRST
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In article <37maef$a7r@winx03.informatik.uni>,
 <tom@uv3.pharmazie.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>Hello !
>I have some problems with the Ethernet driver in Freebsd
>( Version 1.1.51 + Patches 1-20 ). After normal work
>I get console messages with
>"/386bsd ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65535".
>
>This is a SMC Elite Ultra in an 386/40 + 8 MB RAM.

I have bought for that error an extra Ultra, so i normally prefer
the normal Elite cards. But i can't reproduce this error on any machine
here. But this problem was already reported by many persons. It looks
like the SMC Ultra's have some problems. Even SMC has not ended to
sell you the normal Elite 16 cards if you want them :-).

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