From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 07:11:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA21952 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:11:46 -0800 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA21938 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:11:40 -0800 Received: from trepan.io.org (andrew@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA05722; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:11:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:11:28 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Herdman To: "matthew c. mead" cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 In-Reply-To: <199511291219.HAA10311@Glock.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, matthew c. mead wrote: > On Tue, November 28, 1995 at 20:22:56 (-0800), David Greenman wrote: > > > > I've got an SMC EtherEZ 8416 that I'd like to use with FreeBSD, and it > > >shows up properly under the ed0 driver, but anytime I try to use the card I get > > >an error message that looks like this: > > > >ed0: NIC memory corrupt - Invalid packet length 4648. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? It works fine under *cringe* Win95 on someone > > >else's machine... > > > What version of FreeBSD is this with? > > 2.1.0R. I had recommended the purchase of this card due to > response from the list that it worked properly under the ed0 drive, but > apparently it doesn't. I can pop it back in my machine for testing if > you'd like to hammer this out... Thats ok, this card has the same problem with bsdi 2.0.1 and 2.0. It's a crappy card. Andrew Use the SMC Ultra 16 instead