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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD and Ethernet NO GO!
Date: 20 May 1997 00:03:07 -0700
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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In article <33810007.12848C2E@sympatico.ca>,
Stephane Lajeunesse  <slajeunesse@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to get my SMC card working.  In the INSTALL file, it says
>that the kernel (both install kernels) support the SMC.

They do. However, you're using an SMC card at 0x300, which particular
card has the unfortunate problem of getting stomped on very easily
by probes from other drivers.

You have two choices. One is to move the SMC card to another
supported address and IRQ (ed0 or ed1), the other is to use a
different kernel with things like mcd0 and wt0, and anything else
that probes at address 0x300, taken out.

If you'd like to do the latter, and you can't compile a kernel
yourself, first try downloading the 1.2.1 i386 GENERIC kernel, and
see if that fixes the problem. If it doesn't, send me e-mail and
I'll build you a kernel that will work for you.

Of course, another possibility is that you got hit by a rare problem
with SMC cards that kills their NVRAM. Does the SMC setup program
still recognise the card when started after a cold boot?

>It comes back with Device not configured.  I looked at /dev and there is
>no ed?  Looked at MAKEDEV, no ed?

Network devices aren't in dev. Do an `ifconfig -a' to see all the
network devices that the system found when it autoconfigured.

cjs
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Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite myst, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.