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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100 problems with 2.1.0/5 Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 09:31:08 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <327E7CBC.5F17@OntheNet.com.au> References: <327E3CCD.7521@resonate-inc.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Rick Warner <rwarner@resonate-inc.com> Rick Warner wrote: > > I just received 4 new PC's, all with SMC EtherPower 10/100 NICs. > I loaded 2.1.5 on these PC's and could not get them to insert > onto our network. I downgraded one to 2.1.0, and still no > luck. We have a dozen machines here with the identical config all > running 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 without a hitch. So I looked at the SMC cards > and they are smaller than the SMC cards I received in the past, with > a reduced number of chips. I put an older SMC card in one of the > new PC's and it started right up. So, does anyone know what has > changed and why the if_de driver does not like the new cards? Any > hope for a quick fix? > > - rick warner The original writer (and I assume maintainer) of the 'de' driver was (is) Matt Thomas of DEC (thomas@netrix.lkg.dec.com). You could try him but he may not have access to the new SMC card for debugging purposes! Tony