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From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: freebsd and smc ethernet adapter
Date: 22 Aug 1994 10:04:25 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Saad M. Waraich (waraich@peacock.biostat.wisc.edu) wrote:
: 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.
The correct driver for your SMC/WD is 'ed0'.
There are two ways to a solution:
1. look into /sys/i386/conf/GENERICAH (This is the kernel-config-file)
and look onto a line like
ed0 XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXX
check out port, irq and RAM-Adress
and configure your Ethernet-card
2. edit the kernel-config-file (ed0-line) for right irq, port, ram
'configure YOURCONFIGFILE' 'cd ../../compile/YOURCONFIGFILE'
'make depend all'
and you will got a new kernel for your card.
copy it to /386bsd.new, go into single-user-mode ('shutdown now').
'mv /386bsd.new /386bsd' 'sync' 'reboot'
:)
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