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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.missouri.edu!beta.datastorm.com!usenet From: John A. Maier <johnam@beta.datastorm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re:NetBSD has killed my SMC network card !!! Twice Date: 12 Mar 1996 22:30:33 GMT Organization: Datastorm Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4i4tu9$611@beta.datastorm.com> References: <314502FF.3450@niwa.cri.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: johnam.datastorm.com X-Newsreader: PROCOMM PLUS 3.0 for Windows In article 314502FF.3450@niwa.cri.nz, Andy Robertson <a.robertson@niwa.cri.nz> said: > >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 !!!! No, the best NetBSD or any other OS, could do is scramble your card's setting, if it is software configurable. But even then the card could be fix by running the configuration program from SMC. I think your card has just gone bad. I have a SMC8013T in my NetBSD news server, and a older SMC in my NetBSD SLIP/PPP server and they are great! > >The cards will not work for a dos machine now and since the >configration is stuffed I can't use them!!!! Its really pissing me off !!!! > Face it, hardware just goes bad! My NE2000 of 2 years of NetBSD service (since NetBSD 0.8!) just went bad 3 months ago, I was very sad, but a Ethernet Express 16 has made me even happier than I was before! That is after I figured out what I was doing wrong, but then that is a different story... >IF you have an answer or a suggestion email me at > a.robertson@niwa.cri.nz I would if I could... Sorry technical problems, jam *************************************************************************** * John A. Maier * Research and Development * * E-mail: johnam@datastorm.com * Datastorm Technologies Inc. * * * Procomm Plus for Windows and DOS * * * (314) 443-3283 * ***************************************************************************