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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!spurv.runit.sintef.no!he From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) Subject: Hard boot needed for WD ethernet card to be recognized Message-ID: <1992Jul21.190622.26756@ugle.unit.no> Originator: he@spurv.runit.sintef.no Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator) Organization: Computing Center at the University of Trondheim, Norway Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:06:22 GMT Lines: 24 Hi, I've not seen this mentioned before, so I thought I should ask whether any- one else have the same problem I have. Yesterday we installed 386BSD 0.1 on the following system: ISA-based 486/33, 8MB Adaptec SCSI (1542B?) on ISA, 240MB Quantum SCSI disk 3.5" and 5.25" floppies (not sure on which controller, though) WD80013EBT (?) ethernet card (the WD8003E wouldn't work, this was before the recent patch and we never got around to putting the old card back) However, we've seen the error I'm about to describe on another system as well. The error is that one have to do a hard reset of the machine in order for the autoconfigure to find the ethernet card! If you simply reboot (as when you're logged in via telnet), it won't find the ethernet card. Either a press of the reset switch or a power cycle appears to be necessary. Is this a known problem? - Havard