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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!caen!malgudi.oar.net!hyperion!antioc.antioch.edu!baker From: baker@antioc.antioch.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Ethernet problems, Elite16 card Message-ID: <1993Apr13.194649.816@antioc.antioch.edu> Date: 13 Apr 93 19:46:49 EDT References: <1993Apr12.185631.798@antioc.antioch.edu> <1qdjlo$mjf@walt.ee.pdx.edu> Organization: Antioch University Lines: 28 > : as you can guess this is highly undesirable. > : > : This is what I have been told so far: > : > : *Set IRQ to 15 > : Reply- Got complete packet loss. > > What patchkit level are you at? IRQ15 was broken until patchkit 0.2.2 due > to a short != u_short error in the isa_device structure. Patch00091 fixes Patch kit 0.2.2 Like the note says though, the card still wouldn't work with that. > > : *Set the memory on the card to 8k > : Reply- The conf program that came with the card won't let me. > : But I did figure out the kernel was conf as though the card only > : had 8k. Fixing this didn't help. > : > : If this also helps. The 486 also has a trident video card with a megg in it. > : And the machine has 16 megg of memory. > > That seems ok. Do you have any other boards at IRQ5?? IE a second lpt > port normally is set to IRQ5, also some COM4 boards are set to irq5. Nope. Two com ports, and one printer port. I also have a game port. At one point I had a transputer in it though. The transputer card dropped the entire campus... Brian