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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-mannheim.de!andrew From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD has killed my SMC network card !!! Twice Date: 13 Mar 1996 21:57:22 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4i7gc2$9c5@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> References: <314502FF.3450@niwa.cri.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de In article <314502FF.3450@niwa.cri.nz>, Andy Robertson <a.robertson@niwa.cri.nz> wrote: >Help, > >I have (or had) an SMC8013T nework card > >back up and running !!!!!! Has NetBSD the ability to scramble my cards >!!!! > >The cards will not work for a dos machine now and since the configration > is stuffed I can't use them!!!! Its really pissing me off !!!! >a.robertson@niwa.cri.nz I've seen this happen when running 'ezstart' (for newer smc-cards) on old cards which should have used 'ezsetup'. I've also heard of it happening on running NetBSD with certain configurations, though it never happened to me. It was a problem with the wt driver and the le driver clobbering the nvram. Anyway Charles Hannum (sp?) wrote a little program to remedy the problem. Unluckily I can't find it in the mailing-lists but if you ask him nicely he'll probably give you a copy <mycroft@mit.edu> (another gotcha which can happen is when you have one floppydrive and have configured the kernel for two but that doesn't cause as many problems ie. a hard-reboot and everything is fine again.) Cheerio -- The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity. (unknown) current release=doc host=wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror" hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix