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From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding)
Subject: Re: Help!  SMC Elite Ultra
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:17:34 GMT
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Followup - I recompiled the kernel with bpfilter, ran tcpdump, and the
interface is alive, though every byte is repeated.  I assume that this
is because the OS thinks the card is in 16 bit mode when it is in 8
bit mode.  How do I toggle this?  I don't have any docs for the card,
and can't find any for the driver specific to this.


Michael Harding (mvh@netcom.com) wrote:
: I am trying to get networking working, I would rather not change the
: networking card because it makes the OS look gimpy.  There is an SMC
: Elite Ultra 16 in the PC (Gateway, with S3 Trio-64V video card, all
: IDE).

: The card works fine in Win95, I got the SMC utilities and set up the
: card the same way as the switches are supposed to set it up ( port
: 300, int. 10, mem 0xcc000) and now win95 reports these addresses with
: no conflict.  I apparently need these addresses to make Win95 happy.

: I did a boot -c, set the ed0 switches up the same way, turned off all
: of the other net drivers.  The boot finds the card, and I can ping my
: loopback and my own net address, where it reports the proper ethernet
: address via arp -a, but I can't see the rest of the network.  I've
: tried pinging PCs, Suns, whatever, on the local network.

: I disabled the name server in /etc/host.conf, and added a few of the
: local nodes to /etc/hosts.  If I ping anything, it says "host is
: down".  If I jam the ethernet address in via arp -s, it doesn't say
: "host is down", but all packets are still lost.

: the following is in /etc/sysconfig
: ifconfig_edo "inet 192.xx.xx.xx netmask 0xffffff00"

: This is driving me nuts!  Any pointers?  Thanks in advance.