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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!joust1.dsg.dec.com!mishra From: mishra@joust1.dsg.dec.com (Alok Kumar Mishra) Subject: 8013 EPC ethernet card not working Message-ID: <1992Sep15.230732@joust1.dsg.dec.com> Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: mishra@joust1.dsg.dec.com (Alok Kumar Mishra) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 03:07:32 GMT Lines: 24 Hi, I installed a 8013 EPC ( western digital ) ethernet card and changed the irq 2 to Irq 3 and rebuit the kernel,kernel booted fine and it found ethernet controller at irq3 e.g. we0 ethernet address 00::00:c0:38:c6:42 at 0x280 irq 3 on isa ifconfig worked fine but I cannot connect/ping to any another host on the network,in some earlier posting someone mentioned that one has to move vga card to 8 bit slot so that western digital ethernet controller can work,I moved my 16 bit vga card to 8 bit slot,it still did not work,I changed ethernet card with new one ,it still did not work,then I took old kernel and got 8013 EPC card it also behaved same way,it is being recognized at boot time,but I can do nothing with it,but I can ping to same host . also card is not recognized at warm boot. Please help. Thanks Alok Kumar