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From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: network problem
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:36:07 GMT
Organization: a2i network
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In <31CA6E3B.41C67EA6@pike.phil.uni-passau.de> Gerald Anleitner
<anleitne@pike.phil.uni-passau.de> writes:

>ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 9984

I saw this for an SMC Ultra card when I got the memory address wrong.  I
was using a four-digit hex number as shown by the software configuration
program, but one needs to add a zero to that when configuring FreebSD.
E.g., if the SMC software printx ec00 then FreeBSD expects
0xec000.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>