Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:27:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed overwrite clue? Message-ID: <199802172227.OAA03189@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:09:57 %2B0100." <19980217130957.45413@follo.net>
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 03:40:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'm not certain about anything right now - I started reproducing this > > > about an hour ago. It might even be a hardware failure (but I've > > > tried with different cards of the same type, and all fail, while a > > > Kingston Ne2000-clone works flawlessly). > > > > That in particular is kinda odd. What NIC is the Kingston card using? > > Is it a "real" 8390x, or another clone? > > It's another clone. It is marked with > Kingston > EtheRx LC > KTC 8890-AXCM Bleagh. Someone's 8390 macrocell. At least it works. > > I have the RTL8019 documentation around here somewhere; it's in an odd > > format that I didn't get to print (a self-extracting nonstandard-format > > Windows executable I think). If you're really stuffed let me know and > > I'll dig it out. > > Thanks for the offer! (I don't need it yet, but might need it if > everything goes west). No sweat. I keep meaning to put my collection of obscure datasheets somewhere more public. > > One question; the destination of the insw - is that actually a > > legitimate address? ie. is it on the kernel stack, or somewhere > > else? > > It looks like the destination is on the kernel stack. The source > looks more suspicious - it is at 0x6200... That's not unreasonable; the onboard memory on an NE card isn't based at zero. See the comments and code in the Novell-specific probe section for details on this. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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