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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!peacock!waraich From: waraich@peacock.biostat.wisc.edu (Saad M. Waraich) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: freebsd and smc ethernet adapter Date: 21 Aug 1994 23:41:48 GMT Organization: Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <338ons$mki@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peacock.biostat.wisc.edu Hi I was trying to install FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a generic Pentium pc (TriStar or TriCad ?) with AMI bios (I don't remember what version) but I couldn't get the SMC/WD ethernet card to work. The problem is actually with the pc and not the OS. This is the error message I got when I tried to boot from the install floppies. we0: cannot clear shared memory at 0xd800. check configuration. and later is0: IsoLan found at 0x280 ..... Does anyone have any ideas what this means ? I could not get this card to work in dos either (with novell's odi setup). The machine also has one of those sound card thingies in it. Is it possible that it is causing the problem ? The card itself is not bad, as I've tested in another machine and it works fine under dos and bsd. -- Saad