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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!Rezonet.net!altitude!usenet From: rhl@cam.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC 8013EPC under FreeBSD? Date: 9 Dec 1995 20:24:58 GMT Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4acraq$pjt@tandem.CAM.ORG> References: <4a7fn2$q4e@news.nd.edu> Reply-To: rhl@cam.org NNTP-Posting-Host: rhl.hip.cam.org X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 >I am requesting help with getting the SMC 8013EPC or WD8013EP cards to work >under FreeBSD. I have been trying to use the ed driver to get this to work. > >Currently, ed0 is configured with port 0x280, irq 3, and iomem 0xd0000. iosize is set >at 0, the drq is not set, and the flags are 0x0. ed1 is disabled. > >The other devices enabled are fdc0, wdc0, sc0, sio0, sio1, lpt1, and npx0. >.......... >The machine is an IBM valuepoint P60, 60MHz Pentium, 16MB Ram, ISA/PCI bus, 523 >MB IDE hard drive. The IDE controller, video card, and serial/parallel ports are built >in. Currently, the Ethernet card is the only card in the machine. >......... >The jumpers on both cards are set as follows: > The jumper labeled W1-Config (I/O, IRQ, RAM) is set for 280, 3, D0000. The > jumper labeled W2-Rom Address is set to None/Soft. I am still learning my basics of FreeBSD, so correct me if I am wrong, but the above appears to imply that the machine has two (2) serial ports at industry-standard addresses. If that is the case, COM2 (which is probably known to your OS as sio1) uses IRQ3, and the ISA bus cannot share interrupts, thus you have an interrupt conflict. I would therefore suggest you either use the other "hard config" jumper option for the network card (300, IRQ10, CC000), or use the "soft" configuration and select another, more appropriate set of configuration values. >On boot, the messages are as follows: > ed0; failed to clear shared memory at d0000 - check configuration > ed0; not found at 0x280 Of course, the error messages seem to point anywhere BUT at the IRQ conflict, but that would not be the first time a diagnostic message proves misleading... >Is anyone out there using either of these cards? Any help in getting these >cards configured to work on my machine would be greatly appreciated. I have recently purchased a second-hand batch of these cards, and am planning on using them under various operating systems, including FreeBSD and Linux. For now, I have been successful in using them to connect machines using OS/2 Warp Connect and Windows for Workgroups. FYI, SMC's Web site proved very useful in obtaining drivers and diagnostics for these cards... I will send you an Email copy of this response to make sure you read it. Please keep me informed of your success/failure with these cards under FreeBSD... Regards, renald