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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!mustang.via.net!titanium_2.resonate-inc.com!rwarner From: Rick Warner <rwarner@resonate-inc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100 problems with 2.1.0/5 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:27:23 -0800 Organization: ViaNet Communications Lines: 37 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961104131532.394A-100000-100000@titanium_2.resonate-inc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.resonate-inc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199611042053.PAA07236@magicnet.magicnet.net> Thanks for the info. I have scrounged up some of the older SMC boards (swap with NT boxes, which are not sensitive to the change) to get me through for now. So I am OK for a few weeks. Nice way to spend my Saturday :-( Thought I was completely bonkers when I could not get the machine to insert at all. Oh well. - rick warner - On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Larry Baird wrote: > In article <327E3CCD.7521@resonate-inc.com> you 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? > > You will find the same problem with most all of the latest cards based > upon the DEC chip set. Most cards are using a new version of the chip > that dosn't seem to be compatible with the old one. I have a test version > of the de driver from Matt that does seem to fix the problem. I also sent > him a new SMC card for his collection last week. Matts' email address is > in the header of the src/sys/pci/if_de.c. > > I would send you Matt's latest version, but I havn't asked him about > redistribtion. > > Larry > >