Re: Problem with Ethernet on Sparc/2.3

[Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org>]

Dave Martin writes:
 > I have just installed 2.3 on a SPARCstation 10 and am having the following
 > crash occur whenever I attempt to ifconfig the Ethernet interface:
 > 
 > sandbox# ifconfig le0 inet 204.189.6.43 netmask 255.255.255.224
 > le0stray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > :stray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 >  stray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > lstray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > ostray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > sstray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > tstray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 >  stray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > cstray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > astray interrupt ipl 0xc pc=0xf811d4ac npc=0xf811d4b0 psr=400006c1<S,PS>
 > Stopped at      _Debugger:      ta              %icc, 0x1

Hmm, look at the first column:  It spells

	: lost ca

and I'll bet the remainder would be 'rrier'.  Just a guess, but I'd say
the problem is related to:

	SPARCstation 10  (1 X 390Z55), No Keyboard

as ipl 0xc is

	zs0 at obio0 addr 0xf1100000 pri 12, softpri 6
	zs1 at obio0 addr 0xf1000000 pri 12, softpri 6

Can't be sure, but it almost looks like a transmit buffer empty interrupt
handler (or something similar) was never installed. Sorry, no suggestions.

// marc