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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx10.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail From: ehinson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Eric L. Hinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Help with SMC Ethernet cards and BSD/386 1.1 Date: 14 Feb 1995 01:43:51 -0500 Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3hpjf7$ru8@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Reply-To: erich@auglink.org NNTP-Posting-Host: nyx10.cs.du.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Hello there, We are having considerable difficulties getting BSD/386 1.1 to recognize the SMC Ultra 16-bit ethernet cards, which are supposed to be highly recommended card for BSD/386. Quite a few different IRQ and addresses were tried with no success. (won't recognize some NE2000 "compatible" cards either, but it gets even stranger). When booting with the '-autodebug 2' mode selected, sometimes it recognizes the cards but still says 'check intr: none probe failed' when it tries to recognize the ethernet boards. Is there something we are overlooking? Surely there are users of BSD/386 1.1 that have been able to set their systems up to use the SMC Ultra card, how did you do it? Any ideas why ours isn't being recognized? Our dilemma is this: We have a machine running BSDI and acting as a terminal server with an NE2000 "compatible" Manhattan ethernet card in it that gave us a great deal of aggravation. But all of a sudden, it just decided to work. We need to add another RISCom/8 card, but this requires re-building the kernel and the possibility exists that if we do this, the new kernel may not recognize the network card that is in there. The system that we have been using to test ethernet cards with BSD/386 is an AMD 386DX/40 (ISA) with 8 megs of ram and a 317 meg SCSI-2 hard drive, an Adaptec 1542cf controller. (The disk drive hardware described will replace the IDE drive that is in the machine now). The terminal server BSDI box I described above consists of the following: - AMD 386DX/40 (ISA) no mathco (uses emulation option in kernel) 8 megs ram, generic IDE controller, Maxdor 540meg IDE, SDL RISCom/8 card, Trident 512k 16bit vga card and a Manhattan NE2000 "compatible" ethernet card. Any help you can provide on this problem would be greatly appreciated. We have spent way too much time wrestling with it, and we needed to get this modification done a few days ago. Thanks for taking the time. Eric -- Eric L. Hinson :: Internet: erich@auglink.org :: AugLink Public Access Unix Sys Admin :: "Whom the gods would destroy they first send mad" -- J. Duport "The mind is a basket, if you put nothing in you get nothing out" - L'Amour