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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card not found on warmboot Message-ID: <1992Aug20.081238.21448@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds01 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria References: <1992Aug19.165319.14767@doug.cae.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 08:12:38 GMT Lines: 27 In article <1992Aug19.165319.14767@doug.cae.wisc.edu> dinda@cae.wisc.edu (Dinda Peter) writes: > >I have 386BSD 0.1 installed on a Gateway 486/33, 170MB partion, >16MB RAM, Diamond Speedstar card, Western Digital Ethercard PLUS >Elite16 Combo (8003E compatible). After some staring at a BSD >admin handbook, ifconfig, routeing (no demon), named, and sendmail >are up and running. I can telnet, ftp, etc without any problems. > >However, this is only that case when the machine is power-cycled. On >warmboot initiated via reboot or shutdown -r (or a panic) the WD >Ethernet card is not recognized. The card is correctly configured >as IRQ2, I/O adx 0x280, Mem base 0xD000 with EASYSET.EXE. Any thoughts? > Funny, I it works the other way for me: When I power-cycle the machine, the WD8013EP card is recognized, but not really initialized: The computer cannot read the board RAM, and I get those funny 'Reject 65xxx' messages. However, after a warm boot everything works fine. It looks to me like a timing problem (Delay too short in the initialisation phase). Christoph -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christoph M. Robitschko | "the only man who got his work done by Friday chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at | was Robinson Crusoe."