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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!news From: Robert Kooima <kooima@cs.uiowa.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: HELP: NIC memory corrupt Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:49:11 -0600 Organization: University of Iowa Lines: 23 Message-ID: <332821F7.41C6@cs.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: corn.cs.uiowa.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; IRIX64 6.2 IP28) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5637 I'm getting this error from my ethernet card, an SMC/WD8003 on an installation of i386 NetBSD 1.2 ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 4608 I've seen references to this message in the archives of the netbsd lists, but its usually considered insignificant, since it was only happening at boot. However for me, this message scrolls my screen constantly whenever I bring the card up. This card worked fine when I was running both Win95 and Slackware Linux, so I know the card WORKS with my system. Win95 and Linux both auto- detected the card. With NetBSD I'm left to configure it myself. Has anyone at all had any success with this card? PLEASE help me out here. With the amount of fruitless querying I've been doing lately it would seem there's some don't-tell-Bob-about-the-8003 law in effect. -- Robert Kooima kooima@cs.uiowa.edu