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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: more info on WD8003E problem
Date: 22 Mar 1993 11:12:46 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
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In article <1993Mar19.170828.29766@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) writes:
|> > Is the WD8003E supported?
|> 
|> I'm still getting no response to pings to remote hosts.  But when I ping
|> the PC from a Sun host, I get the message "reject 65531" printed on the
|> PC console every second or so (it seems in response to every ping
|> from the Sun).  Does this mean the PC is seeing packets from the Sun,
|> but rejecting them?  Any idea why?

Re-compile your kernel so that the kernel so that it thinks the card has
8 kilobytes of RAM, if that's not already the case. That solved the reject65531
problem on two of the machines I know about.

-Bernard