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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMC 8416
Date: 28 Jul 1996 16:58:11 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Ernie Elu
(ernie@eis.net.au) had the courage to say:
: Anyone gotten an SMC 8416 ethernet card running under FreeBSD?
Yes, I do. I'm using it with FreeBSD 2.0.5 no less (I tweaked the
2.0.5 ed0 driver a bit to support it.)
: the ed0 drive detects its after I recompiled the kernel with the ed0 drive
: set to irq10 prort 0x260 and address 0xcc000 which seem to be the dafault
: for the card. Trouble is I cant seem to ifconfig it after that.
Don't say 'I can't seem to do X.' Say 'I typed X, and I got an error
message that said Y.' And don't say 'I can't remember the error message.'
Write it down.
Anyway:
FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 3 18:44:48 EDT 1995
wpaul@skynet:/usr/src/sys/compile/SKYNET
CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU)
real memory = 4194304 (1024 pages)
avail memory = 3354624 (819 pages)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 10 maddr 0xe8000 msize 8192 on isa
ed0: address 00:00:c0:12:ce:b2, type SMC8416C/SMC8416BT (16 bit)
bpf: ed0 attached
[...]
First of all, you don't need to recompile the kernel (though I did
for this machine for other reasons). All you need to do is boot with
the -c flag and then change the port, irq and iomem settings for ed0.
Second, it's important that you use the EZsetup program that comes
with the card to turn off plug & play mode. Once you do this, the
card should work very nicely. There should have been a floppy packaged
with the card containing the setup program (which you need to run in
DOS, unfortunately). If you don't have it, you should be able to FTP
a copy from ftp.smc.com.
Hope this helps.
-Bill
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