Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:25:31 -0500 (EST) From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org, Gregory James Hormann <ghormann@indiana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC Memory Corrupt Message-ID: <wn2nS=C00YVpJR7NtR@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970217140959.1099B-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970217140959.1099B-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu>
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Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 17-Feb-97 Re: NIC Memory Corrupt by Gregory J. Hormann@india >> I have a SMC 8416T ethernet card. When FreeBSD boots I get the >> following message: >> >> Starting Routing Daemon: Route ED0: NIC Memory Corrupt >> ED0: NIC Memory Corrupt - Invalid Packet Length 4864 > >I have the same stupid card. I would get those messages sent to syslogd >every 10-30 minutes, but the card still seemed to function correctly. I >finally changed isa/if_ed.c to prevent the loggings... I have the EtherEZ, which identifies itself as that chipset: ed0: address 00:00:c0:77:bb:a8, type SMC8416T (16 bit) However, I found I got that error when I had the iomemory range set to small in the cards configuration. In the end, I had to turn of PnP on the card, and configure it to these settings: ed0 at 0x220-0x23f irq 3 maddr 0xd0000 msize 8192 on isa Part of the problem was the memory window was the wrong size, I seem to remember. I had a big problem when PnP was turned on because things would jump around like crazy whenever I changed a legacy card -- it would happily move the ethernet card somewhere else without warning, and since I don't have the PnP code running on this machine.. :) Robert
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