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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!news.hawaii.edu!ames!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!news.fas.harvard.edu!erik From: erik@avalon.harvard.edu (Erik Evensen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: help with SMC EtherPower 8432 Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 30 Jan 1996 21:38:50 GMT Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Laboratories Lines: 19 Message-ID: <ERIK.96Jan30163851@avalon.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: avalon.harvard.edu So on the advice of the web page, I bought an SMC PCI card to replace my NE2000 clone. Problem is, I can't get the bloody thing out of what I guess is PnP mode. I'm seeing symptoms similar to those I found doing a search of the mailing list archives: during the boot process, the card and media are detected properly; however, after the call to ifconfig for the SMC card the machine hangs, I guess in the call to ifconfig for lo0, and eventually times out and finishes the boot process. However, there are no routes established and I cannot ping any other machines, nor can they ping this one. I'm assuming this is the PnP problem. I don't have a Windows or whatever partition setup on my harddrive; booting from a floppy I kludged together to run MS-DOS 6.whatever, I run ezsetup as I retrieved from the SMC ftp site but it doesn't give me an option to turn off PnP?!? So, my question is, how did you turn off PnP? If it takes some software, what is it, and could you send/loan/whatever it to me? Thanks for any help!!! --erik