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From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] WD8003E card doesn't work
Keywords: ethernet, 386BSD, WD8003E
Message-ID: <1992Dec10.085131.1527@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: 10 Dec 92 08:51:31 GMT
References: <1992Dec8.144009@cs.utwente.nl>
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
Lines: 21

In article <1992Dec8.144009@cs.utwente.nl> roana@cs.utwente.nl (V.O.F. Roana Technologies) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to use a WD8003E (8-bit) ethernet card with 386bsd 0.1. Although
>386bsd recognizes the card as we0 (and correctly displays our ethernet
>address), I can't send or receive any frames with it. Everytime I have another
>computer send a frame to 386bsd, 386bsd says 'reject 65531'. Looking at the
>kernel sources, I found out this means a frame was received with a length
>of 65535 (0xFFFF). This suggests 386bsd is looking at the wrong area in
>memory. However, during initialization the memory seems to work correctly.
>Any suggestions are welcome.

	I had this problem yesterday!  I was using the dist.fs from the
	"unofficial/newbootables.cgd" directory (the boot images with the
	pathched wd.c code) and decided to change to dist.fs-noIS (no isolink
	driver)... this solved the problem.


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Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK.           duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
#define	DISCLAIMER      My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's