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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: network card - SMC 8416 Date: 2 Mar 1997 21:05:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5fcq3f$8u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33186035.1314194@24.112.32.5> <331860e3.1489095@24.112.32.5> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36434 empey@integral.on.ca wrote: > >I have a network card installed, an SMC 6416, whihc doesn't appear to > >be supported . I tried the driver for the SMC 80XX cards to no avail. > >Any suggestions? > > Oops, that should be an 8416, not a 6416. The 8416 is the so-called ``Ultra'', ain't it? It is supported. It's probably that your hardware settings don't match the kernel's idea. If all else fails (and you don't have the DOS configuration tool for it), try jumpering it to one of the hard-configured settings. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)