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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC 9332 BDT problem Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:34:03 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 34 Message-ID: <33A0E9DB.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bc7792$d6246050$1160b5c7@carew> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42831 Eric V. Smith wrote: > > I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 via FTP when using an SMC 9332 > BDT (PCI) in an HP Vectra VE. Hmmm. How many PCI slots does this thing have in it, just out of curiousity? > When the devices get configured, it is correctly identified as a DEC 21140A > chip, and it reports the MAC address correctly. However, the link light > goes out and the Tx/Rx light stops blinking. Hmmm. That's bad. Just curious: Does 2.1.7.1's boot floppy do the same thing? I'm trying to isolate the driver characteristics a little here. > stops for several minutes, eventually returning with an error that says > "Cannot resolve hostname xxxxx. Are you sure that your name server, > gateway, and network interface are correctly configured?" I'm positive > that they are. (I've done this any number of times.) From the sound of things, it's most certainly the card going deaf for some odd reason - there's nothing in this configuration which you need to change or inspect, it's undoubtedly all correct. > If this fails, I'm going to return my 5 SMC cards (I've got a lot of > machines to install) and switch to something else. What other PCI 10/100 > cards should I consider? The Intel Etherexpress Pro 100B. That trailing 'B' is also important. It's a better card than the SMC and the driver for it generates measurably lower CPU overhead at 100Mbits. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.