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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!dde.dde.dk!berta.dde.dk!news From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD has killed my SMC network card !!! Twice Date: 15 Mar 1996 01:06:54 GMT Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4iafre$qul@berta.dde.dk> References: <314502FF.3450@niwa.cri.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: nessie.dde.dk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #15 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 >!!!! >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 !!!! >IF you have an answer or a suggestion email me at >a.robertson@niwa.cri.nz Cutting from the port-i386 mailing-list archive: >> I've done this but no luck here either. I've booted straight to DOS and >> run the SMC diagnostics with no response. This card is major-league dead. > >not "dead" -- just most software won't talk to it. > >Charles had a program to fix it, that he wrote when the problem was >initiall encountered. I couldn't find it in my mail archives or the >NetBSD mail archives, but i didn't look too hard. _somebody's_ gotta >have copy.. If you havn't allready, subscribe to netbsd mailing-lists. More info from majordomo@netbsd.org Also direct your questions to the relevant mailing-lists where you are more likely to get answers. regards kim -- -- Kim Andersen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark. kim@dde.dk http://www.dde.dk/