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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!tower.itis.com!infoserv.illinois.net!news.nd.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!cobra.uni.edu!isrl.cba.uni.edu!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP/IP with an SMC Ultra 16 ethernet. Usable? Message-ID: <3rflh4$105m@isrl.cba.uni.edu> From: kuhtz@isrl.cba.uni.edu (Christian Kuhtz) Date: 11 Jun 1995 16:00:20 -0500 References: <IEC.95Jun11005547@netcom20.netcom.com> <3resf1$7sl@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: IS Research Lab, CBA, University of Northern Iowa NNTP-Posting-Host: isrl.cba.uni.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Lines: 35 bicknell@vt.edu (Leo Bicknell) writes: > First of all make sure your card is actually supported. >The supported SMC cards are: >SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503, >Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards > ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000 > ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000 > ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000 Leaving everything else aside, from my background, I have rearly seen any cards on IRQ 2. Although, d000, d800 and cc00 seem to be reasonable. What about IRQ 11? IRQ 14 and 15 are usually occupied by some controller. (IDE, EIDE, SCSI etc.) I have never seen a single system with an Ethernet card installed, which matched the FreeBSD (can't really speak for NetBSD, although, I bluntly assume this is pretty much comparable) default hooks. That's after about 300+ machines installed... Well, I believe, that something needs to be done about these rather fix configuration issues. > I think you will find that NetBSD and FreeBSD don't >have as many snazzy colorful setup menus, but that both >perform much better then Linux. A little more effort gets >you a little better product. They will soon. :) Just my $.02, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@isrl.cba.uni.edu>, http://www.cba.uni.edu/~kuhtz Information Systems Research Lab, College of Business Administration, University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA, USA. "My opinion belongs to me." Visit the Virtual College at http://www.cba.uni.edu/