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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uknet!liv!dtyson From: dtyson@liverpool.ac.uk (Dave Tyson) Subject: Problems with WD8003W & NetBSD 1.0 Message-ID: <CzDEBA.46K@liverpool.ac.uk> Sender: news@liverpool.ac.uk (News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: uxe.liv.ac.uk Organization: The University of Liverpool X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 17:09:10 GMT Lines: 17 Just tried to install NetBSD 1.0 on my 486DX system 16 Meg, IDE disk, Western Digital 8003W ethernet card. NetBSD 0.9 ran fine on this system and gave no networking problems. The problem appears to be the autoconfigure probe routines are not picking up the config of the WD8003W correctly. The device is configured as IRQ 2 base address 0x280 and memory 0xd0000, however NetBSD reports the IRQ as 9 and the interface as BNC rather than UTP. [I seem to remember reading somewhere IRQ 9 being equivalent to IRQ 2 on some systems] While this may not be the cause of the problem, when the interface is configured a whole stream of 'NIC memory Corrupt - zero length packet' messages spew out. As a result I guess I will have to install the rest of the stuff from floppy (tedious) unless anyone can suggest what is wrong. Dave