Subject: Re: VME Ethernet with NetBSD/sparc 1.1
To: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/23/1996 18:00:18
On Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:37:58 -0500 (EST)
Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org> wrote:
> I just installed a VME Ethernet card into my 4/110 running
> NetBSD/sparc 1.1 and am having some problems. Upon boot, the kernel
> displays the following message:
>
> ie1 at vmes0 addr 0xffe88000 vec 0x75: RAM CONFIG FAILED!
>
> Is this indictive of the card being bad or is it just
> configured? For that matter, is this supported by NetBSD/sparc?
I'm not sure that it's possible to use the DVMA-savvy boards on the
4/100. I think you're pretty much limited to serial boards, and the
like. The 4/100 was pretty weak in the VME arena ... I think the one
slot was kind of token...
Then again, I could be totally wrong ... Chuck would probably know :-)
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