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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!rtf.bt.co.uk!duplain From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] WD8003E card doesn't work Keywords: ethernet, 386BSD, WD8003E Message-ID: <1992Dec10.085131.1527@rtf.bt.co.uk> Date: 10 Dec 92 08:51:31 GMT References: <1992Dec8.144009@cs.utwente.nl> Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK Lines: 21 In article <1992Dec8.144009@cs.utwente.nl> roana@cs.utwente.nl (V.O.F. Roana Technologies) writes: >Hi, > > I'm trying to use a WD8003E (8-bit) ethernet card with 386bsd 0.1. Although >386bsd recognizes the card as we0 (and correctly displays our ethernet >address), I can't send or receive any frames with it. Everytime I have another >computer send a frame to 386bsd, 386bsd says 'reject 65531'. Looking at the >kernel sources, I found out this means a frame was received with a length >of 65535 (0xFFFF). This suggests 386bsd is looking at the wrong area in >memory. However, during initialization the memory seems to work correctly. >Any suggestions are welcome. I had this problem yesterday! I was using the dist.fs from the "unofficial/newbootables.cgd" directory (the boot images with the pathched wd.c code) and decided to change to dist.fs-noIS (no isolink driver)... this solved the problem. -- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk #define DISCLAIMER My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's