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From: leon@ic.uva.nl (Leon Oninckx)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Etherlink III card problems
Date: 8 May 1996 22:46:15 +0200
Organization: University of Amsterdam, Informatiseringscentrum
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Message-ID: <4mr16n$o6a@mail.ic.uva.nl>
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I am having a weird problem with trying to install BSDI 2.1 on a
Pentium 60 (Intel Batman Revenge motherboard, BIOS 1.00.13.AF2)
and a 3COM Etherlink III (both the old and new version). What happens
is this: whenever the card is installed, floppy boot from install
disk results in a hang after displaying 'Changing root device to fd0a'.
Both floppy drive and hard drive lights are lit. Without card the system
boots just fine. When I install BSDI without the card, everything is
fine, but whenever I install the card, the same thing happens at boottime.
The card is configured IRQ 10, I/O 0x300 and plug-n-play is disabled
on the newer version of the card. Does anyone have a clue what is
wrong here?

Please reply by email. Thanks,

-Leon

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