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From: jk@esperance.com (Joel Klecker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems: NetBSD and Macintosh IIcx
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:01:41 -0800
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In article <alice.859277196@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu>, Mathu Nedam
<aerk@mallorn.com> wrote:
>I think the problem is with my ethernet card. The last message I see before
>everything freezes is:
>
> ae0 at nubus0: address 02:60:8c:06:a6:41, type EtherNet card, 32k mem
>The machine will boot if I take out the ehternet card.
>Could any of you point me in the right direction?
Make sure you boot MacOS with extensions off before booting into NetBSD.
If the card somehow happens to receive data and generate an interrupt at
boot time, sometimes the kernel seems to be unable to handle it (at least
that's what I recall from the port-mac68k mailing list).
There is also sometimes a weird interrupt-related conflict between
ethernet and video cards, I believe that can be resolved by swapping card
positions, or using a -current kernel.
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