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#! rnews 2469 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: NetBSD has killed my SMC network card !!! Twice Message-ID: <1996Mar13.105925.27777@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg References: <314502FF.3450@niwa.cri.nz> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 10:59:25 GMT Lines: 39 Andy Robertson <a.robertson@niwa.cri.nz> writes: >Help, >I have (or had) an SMC8013T nework card >I installed NetBSD 1.1 the other day from floppies and all seemed to go >OK. I noticed it was not connecting to the network so I checked the >network card settings to see if they were the right ones to work with >NetBSD. I altered them to the correct settings for the card with >ezsetup. upon boot up NetBSD proceeded to tell me that my IRQ was wrong >the the network was not loaded. I rebooted and this time it didn't even >find it. So I booted to DOS and ran the SMC configuration program >ezsetup.exe which proceeded to tell me that I had no cards installed. I >tried the card on another machine and still no luck. So I tried another >card and exactly the same thing happened. HOW do I get my network cards >back up and running !!!!!! Has NetBSD the ability to scramble my cards >!!!! I had something similar, too. The probe routines from PC-Unixes can change the memory where the card stores its settings. If your kernel had the right settings, this wouldn't happen. However, the real problem here is the braindead configuration program from SMC that fails to find its own card whens settings are bad. The solution is to set the card to some hard-wired addresses instead of "soft", use the configuration program to make proper settings and then change back to "soft". Make sure your kernel config matches your settings before loading it. I once heard that alternate programs exist for these cards to make setting. You may want to look for them. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer