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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: help with SMC EtherPower 8432 Message-ID: <DMF7Iy.E9M@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 References: <ERIK.96Jan30163851@avalon.harvard.edu> <4f04g5$8g@newnews.iafrica.com> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:28:23 GMT Lines: 51 In article <4f04g5$8g@newnews.iafrica.com>, root@xwing.wcape.gov.za (Sean White) wrote: >Erik Evensen (erik@avalon.harvard.edu) wrote: > >: 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? > Erik, what version of FreeBSD are you using? I have one of the 2.1-SNAP releases that does not include code for the DEC 21041 chipset in current SMC Etherpower (only the 21040 chip) cards, I lifted the new code from a later SNAP that did support that card and it now works fine. If you are using v2.1.0-RELEASE then please ignore this response. > >I've got one of these cards. Couldn't even find it under DOS/Novell until I set >an IRQ in the PCI setup of the machine. After that it ran fine. A nice card, >I must say. BTW, I set mine to IRQ 10... > >Now, if anyone could tell me why FreeBSD won't see my PCI bus at all (unless I >boot from the install stiffy twice in a row, which then causes the BIOS to >claim there's no L2-Cache installed) I'd be really happy. The machine is an >Acer Altos 7000/V with a 120Mhz Pentium processor, 128Mb RAM, 4Gb Seagate >drive on an Adaptec AIC7870 integrated SCSI controller. The boot process only >finds 64M RAM as well... I'm really beginning to hate this machine. Great for >playing DOOM on but that's not why I bought it... > Most of this sounds like a chipset/BIOS problem. I have an Intel/Triton chipset with an AMI BIOS, and the card worked fine out of the box (once I had the right code, see above). The over-64MB RAM problem is well known and has to do with using the BIOS during startup. I have never had the problem (I have never had that much RAM either :-} so I can't point you to the solution directly, but I do beleive it is in the FAQ (you have to tell the kernal how much RAM you have). >The local agents, when told what O/S I was running said things like "Do they >still make BSD? Is that like Linux?" - I was charmed... > Altos used to be a System III-V Unix operation; times have sure changed, not always for the better. | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |