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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!129.240.148.41!nntp.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Sturle Sunde <sturles@ifi.uio.noX> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Network problem: receiver ring buffer overrun Date: 16 Jul 1997 20:44:47 GMT Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 36 Sender: sturles@agnar.uio.no Message-ID: <5qjbrv$q0f$1@ratatosk.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: agnar.uio.no Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6266 I made a old Mac IIcx (mac68k - 68030) user friendly by installing NetBSD on it, and it works very well. Almost right out of the box. But I have a problem with the Ethernet card. First time I booted, theese messages showed up on the console: Jul 14 09:48:55 myname /netbsd: ae0 at nubus0: address 00:00:94:07:df:41, type MacCon Ethernet, 16k mem. Jul 14 09:48:55 myname /netbsd: ae0: length does not match next packet pointer Jul 14 09:48:55 myname /netbsd: ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 0e next 00 stop 40 Jul 14 09:48:56 myname /netbsd: ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280 - The network was unavailiable. Tried again, and got: Jul 14 11:13:47 studorg1 /netbsd: ae0: failed to clear shared memory at 0x88b4d00 - check configuration Jul 14 11:13:47 studorg1 /netbsd: nubus0: slot a: MacCon Ethernet (Vendor: Asante Technologies, Inc., Part: MacCon Ethernet) not configured Then I changed the card with another card of exactly the same type, and got the same sequence of error messages. Strangely the command "ifconfig ae0 up" made the device availiable anyway, so I was able to configure the network and get the box on the net. The only problem now, is that I keep getting these messages when i transfer larger amounts of data over the net: Jul 14 14:56:28 studorg1 /netbsd: ae0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun Jul 14 14:56:30 studorg1 last message repeated 5 times The data does not seem to get corrupted in any way. Files transfered via ftp unzips and untars well, and I compiled and installed Apache web-server, which runs with no problems at all. I guess any problems are taken care of by the TCP/IP stack, but the messages are kind of disturbing. Does anyoune know what they mean and how I can get rid of them? -- Sturle URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~sturles/ _______ ~~~~~~ Win 95: |_Stopp_|