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From: tom@aspc15.as.arizona.edu (Tom Trebisky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMC 8013BT EEPROM parameters lost
Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:22:34 -0700
Organization: Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona
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This dad-gummed problem -- just bit me again, when I was setting up
two systems.  Here is what I experienced, and an easy fix:

Start with an 8013 card soft configured to io port 300, irq 10, ...
to be recognized as ed2 by the generic kernel.  The kernel tromps
on the card and it no longer is recognized at all.

I keep a DOS bootable floppy with the "EZSETUP" program on it for
these "occasions".  Putting this floppy in and hitting reset, the
EZSETUP program announces there is no network card in the system.
(BTW, you can get this handy program from the SMC www site, in a big
self-exploding ETHER.EXE which has drivers for DOS and other such
worlds).

However (and this is the good news), power the system off for a while
and then turn it back on and run the EZSETUP program and it finds the
card and is happy to reconfigure it.  This has worked for me twice.
Typically, I turn the computer off, go to find the info about how
to patch the card via debug, and when I turn it back on to do this,
"voila!".  May it work this nicely for you....

	Tom


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	Tom Trebisky			Steward Observatory
	ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu	University of Arizona
	(520) 621-5135			Tucson, Arizona 85721