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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!arcadia.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!adam From: adam@arcadia.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Adam Eberbach) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Digiboard 16em + 8013 Ethernet = Corruption! Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:08:56 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2t5fho$f98@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-User: adam X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] NetBSD is up and running just fine after a few little problems. I want to use my Digiboard 16em card with PORTS 16 module for 16 terminals/dialin lines. I also have a SMC 8013 EPC Ethernet card which I want to use so that I can also access the machine from our WfW 3.11 network. Trouble is, when the Digiboard and Ethernet card are in the machine at the same time all sorts of random problems occur. Some of these are corrupt filesystems resulting in the machine refusing to boot, or the CD ROM (NEC CD 84 with Adaptec 1542CF) not reading properly. One thing which always happens is that I can't untar packages from the CD while both cards are in. Either one of these cards works perfectly in the machine alone, but when the two are together the problems come back. Sounds like the cards conflict with each other you say? Yes, but... The Ethernet card is software configurable, for IRQ, I/O address and iomem. The Digiboard is configurable by dip switch for I/O address, but always uses IRQ 15. The iomem is set in the kernel config file. I have tried moving both cards all over memory, but the problem just won't go away. I don't want to experiment any more since I have now made a lot of changes to the system - unfortunately I have no tape to back it up yet. Ideas please anyone? I'm no wizard, but have plenty of books to refer to. -- Adam Eberbach, Computer Science student, RMIT. adam@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au and now also...adam@halcyon.com.au. - I test modems and program windows.