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From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP with an SMC Ultra 16 ethernet. Usable?
Date: 12 Jun 1995 12:40:14 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim
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Message-ID: <3rhcje$4sq@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>
References: <IEC.95Jun11005547@netcom20.netcom.com> <1995Jun11.210647.53862@cc.usu.edu>
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In article <1995Jun11.210647.53862@cc.usu.edu>,
Roger Ivie <ivie@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>In article <IEC.95Jun11005547@netcom20.netcom.com>, iec@netcom20.netcom.com (Interstate Electronics Corp) writes:
>I've been fighting similar battles with both NetBSD and FreeBSD. NetBSD
>finds and initializes the controller (I set it to IRQ 9 using EZSETUP), but
>keeps insisting that the shard memory is corrupt; it claims to have received
>zero-length packets.

Now this is a problem (the only problem) I have seen with ethernet
not NetBSD-current and it has disapeered since I compiled a
kernel with only the first floppy set. i.e. replace 'fd*' with 'fd0' 
in the CONFIGFILE.

Cheerio
-- 
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