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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Commerical OS's (was Re: aha0: DMA beyond end of ISA) Date: 17 May 1995 15:11:28 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 52 Message-ID: <3pd3n0$no1@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <MICHAELV.95May12222703@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <1995May16.114607.16086@zippy.dct.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fileserv1.mi.uni-koeln.de Bcc: se To: amm@tremas.dct.ac.uk (Angus Marshall) In article <1995May16.114607.16086@zippy.dct.ac.uk>, amm@tremas.dct.ac.uk (Angus Marshall) writes: |> Oh yeah? Which ones? for the last 4 months I've been trying to get the NCR card |> to coexist with ed0 and ed1. I can get the system to come up from the hard |> drive successfully, but as soon as ed0 or ed1 is enabled with ifconfig |> I get blasted by messages about "NIC memory corrupt: Packet length |> zero" Well, I'm using the NCR and an "ed" type Ethernet card on my system. In fact this was the development environment of the NCR driver ... I'm running FreeBSD, not NetBSD, but I don't think this makes too much of a difference, since the NCR driver is compiled from the same source file in both, and I don't think the ed driver differs that much. |> The hardware all works fine under MS-Dos and Windows so I'm forced to |> think it's a software problem. Not necessarily. Looks more like an interrupt configuration problem to me ! DOS and Windows don't make much use of interrupts ... |> TX: Yes, these cards work, but NOT with ethernet - prove me |> wrong.(please) Well, its works fine for me. I'm sure somebody got the NCR and ed drivers working under NetBSD. Could you please send the boot mesage log and some information on your system configuration ? |> > Why this obsession with Adaptec anyway? |> |> 'cos they WORK! Yes. This used to be true, when the software interface was open and everybody could write drivers for them. But with their current attitude this isn't true for free OS anymore. And there are much cheaper alternatives (and the NCR is the best, IMHO). Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser Internet: <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706017 Universitaet zu Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 Weyertal 80 50931 Koeln