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From: tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow)
Subject: Re: /386bsd: reject 65340
Message-ID: <1992Sep19.084637.17954@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Sender: tim@kimba (Tim Liddelow)
Organization: CATT Centre at CITRI, Melbourne, Australia
References: <3594@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Sep18.085534@IASTATE.EDU> <rwa.716836288@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <19d7v2INN75q@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 92 08:46:37 GMT
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In article <19d7v2INN75q@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>, kd@sophia.doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis) writes:
|> 
|> In article <rwa.716836288@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes:
|> > jzelle@IASTATE.EDU (James A Zelle) writes:
|> > >In article <3594@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Richard
|> > >Deal) writes:
|> > >>/386bsd: reject65340 messages.  The number is mostly 65340 but is
|> > >>some times 65342, 65344, 65366.  if I type
|> > >I'm having a similar problem with a Western Digital Ethernet card,
|> > >except I think the error says "reject655341" in my case.  The error
|> > >goes away when the Ethernet cable is disconnected, so it appears that
|> > >386BSD doesn't like what it sees on the network.  Any ideas?
|> > 
|> > This problem arises from having shadow memory enabled in the range of
|> > addresses (0xD0000 - 0xD03FFF as I remember) that the dual-port ram in
|> > the WD8013 card corresponds to.  Turn off any shadowing or caching in
|> > this region via your BIOS EAPROM setup firmware and the problem will
|> > go away (your mileage may vary :).
|> > 
|> 	It might not be that easy. We have a NEC 386PC of some age having
|> the same problem. No CMOS setup is available in ROM (or that is what we
|> think) and no shadow RAM should appear.
|> 	What seems curious is the fact the the WE card is recoginsed at
|> boot time as being in IRQ 9 instead of IRQ 2 mentioned in the documentation.
|> The card WD8003E is set to IRQ2 and -the funny bit- it will not accept a
|> jumper setting for IRQ 9.
|> 

IRQ9 is really a redirected IRQ2.  Reconfiguring the WE card on another IRQ
(say 5) may help.  Again, your mileage may vary.

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  Tim Liddelow                                          for(;;) fork();
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