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From: jensting@ic.ac.uk (Jens Tingleff)
Subject: HELP! SMC Elite16 ethernet card confused
Message-ID: <1993Oct22.124745.9569@cc.ic.ac.uk>
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Keywords: Software configuration problem
Nntp-Posting-Host: dinghy.ee
Organization: Elec. Eng. Imperial College, London
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 12:47:45 BST
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G'day
I seem to either have blown my SMC Elite16 Combo, or gotten it seriously
confused. I didn't run this card in DOS before, and today I started trying to use
it with FreeBSD (which uses the "ed" driver). The problem was that I had tried to
set the card for IRQ5, and failed, using EZSETUP. EZSETUP thought that the card
was an 8003 card. I didn't think that I had any cards on IRQ5 (my multi-IO card
was wired for LPT1 on IRQ7, and MSD reported an unfound LPT2 on IRQ5 and a found
LPT1 on IRQ7 which seems correct). The first time I booted FreeBSD with
the ethernet cable plucked in, the bootup sequence told me I had the card at
correct addresses/irq (base:280, irq:5).
Trying to ifconfig the card resulted in device timeout. Later, the card refused
to be configured, reporting board type unknown in EZSETUP, and refusing to be set
to IRQ5, even though I took the multi-IO card out of the computer.
Now the card reports type 8003 only after a boot in FreeBSD, although FreeBSD
doesn't see the card anymore (!).
All this leads me to hypothesize that the software configuration got *very*
confused, since SMC DIAGNOSE.EXE can't even find the card, although it's set to a
hard setting.
Any advice eagerly awaited...
Jens
--
Mr Jens Tingleff, M.Sc.EE. PhD student at
Imperial College, Dept of EE, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BT, England
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