On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Joe Laffey wrote:

> At boot time I get this message about the NIC (which I think is a MacConI
> nubus, but I don't know for sure ... could look)
> 
> ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
> ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 13 next 00 stop 40
> ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280

Did you read the FAQ?

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/faq-10.html#ss10.21

> Also, The machine has 36 Mb of real RAM, but I don't think I am seeing
> that much in NetBSD:
> Memory: 3264K Act, 2636K Inact, 332K Wired, 23M Free, 4K Swap, 74M Swap
> free (from top)
> This seems to add up to around 30 Mb. I wonder where the rest of the RAM
> went...

top only shows you the memory used by user processes.  Kernel memory use
is hidden from top.  Just imagine an invisible 6MB process representing
your kernel, filesystem cache, etc.
-- 
Tod McQuillin