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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!sthaug From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Error msg 'failed to clear shared memory' when detecting second NE2000 card Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:48:42 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4j45eb$cf5@verdi.nethelp.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no I had a minor problem today after installing the new 960323 SNAP. The host in question is a 486 DX2 50 MHz, and has two NE2000 type cards. ed0 is a Kingston card, ed1 is from CNETS. On first bootup with the new SNAP, ed0 was detected normally: ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 on isa ed0: address 00:c0:f0:0c:0f:8b, type NE2000 (16 bit) while I got this for ed1: ed1: failed to clear shared memory at d8000 - check configuration ed1 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 msize 8192 on isa ed1: address 52:54:4c:09:51:8d, type NE2000 (16 bit) I was wondering whether the 'iomem 0xd8000' needed to be changed with two cards (not obvious from the documentation what is correct), so I changed it to 0xdc000 and tried again. Same error message, at the new address. After rebooting to DOS and using the vendor-supplied installation program to test the card, everything works normally, ie. ed1 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 on isa ed1: address 52:54:4c:09:51:8d, type NE2000 (16 bit) I see that if_ed.c is unchanged from the 960226 SNAP, which is what the machine was previously running - so I'm certainly not going to blame this on the new SNAP. Just thought I would report it. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no