From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 2 14:59:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA09593 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 14:59:35 -0800 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA09567 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 14:59:29 -0800 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA13877; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 17:59:11 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 17:59:08 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Andrew Herdman cc: "matthew c. mead" , davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Andrew Herdman wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, matthew c. mead wrote: > > > On Tue, November 28, 1995 at 20:22:56 (-0800), David Greenman wrote: > > > > > > I've got an SMC EtherEZ 8416 that I'd like to use with FreeBSD, and it > > > >shows up properly under the ed0 driver, but anytime I try to use the card I get > > > >an error message that looks like this: > > > > > >ed0: NIC memory corrupt - Invalid packet length 4648. [snip] > Thats ok, this card has the same problem with bsdi 2.0.1 and 2.0. It's a > crappy card. > > Andrew > > Use the SMC Ultra 16 instead For the record, I have an ultra 16 combo card and: Nov 19 13:35:33 fieber-john /kernel: ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 2307 Nov 27 19:17:26 fieber-john /kernel: ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 2112 It has only happened twice, and I have not noticed any ill effects. The system is about 1 or 2 snapshots before 2.1. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============