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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!admaix.sunydutchess.edu!ub!news.drenet.dnd.ca!usenet From: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca (Ken Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 Cards Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:15:34 GMT Organization: NRNS Incorporated Lines: 27 Message-ID: <316d3cbd.185947647@feline.nrnsinc.on.ca> References: <4jp6n2$982@europa.frii.com> Reply-To: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: feline.nrnsinc.on.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate/3.0.17) On 1 Apr 1996 18:19:14 GMT, gnat@frii.com (Nathan Torkington) wrote: >I have a Plug'n'Play BIOS, but the card seems to be forgetting its >settings when I do a hard reboot. As far as I can tell, not knowing >Is there some vital piece of clue that I'm missing here that would >make it easy for me to just boot FreeBSD and have it all work >magically? All help appreciated. It's been a while since you posted this, so I don't know if you have resolved it yet. Yesterday I came across this same problem, and a solution. The more recent versions of the SMC software have the ezsetup.exe command which has options to let you disable PnP support. I think the two options you want are -nopnp and -pnpboot:d. Once I did this, I was able to configure the card and have it keep it's configuration. This of course requires that you have DOS, but you can boot of a floppy to run it. If you need the software, it is available on their ftp site at ftp.smc.com. The software is in a self extracting (DOS) archive called ether.exe.