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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!lemis!grog From: grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Problem with 386BSD and WD8003E Ethernet Keywords: 386BSD ETHERNET WESTERN DIGITAL WD8003E Message-ID: <2398@adagio.lemis.uucp> Date: 31 Oct 92 16:43:31 GMT References: <116@mgcind.UUCP> Organization: LEMIS, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany Lines: 47 In article <116@mgcind.UUCP> joe@mgcind.UUCP (Joe Hance) writes: > >I'm having trouble getting ethernet up on my 386DX-25 >system. I have 386BSD installed on my hard disk and >I get a message: > >we0 ethernet address 00:00:c0:c4:fe:18 at 0x280 irq 9 on isa > >in the startup sequence. When I run ifconfig to initialize the >board as such: > >ifconfig we0 137.202.171.104 > >I start getting messages echoed back at the console that say: > >reject 65531 > >these messages just continue popping up until I disable the card with: > >ifconfig we0 down > >I know the board work as I use it all the time under DOS with PC/TCP >and NCSA Telnet. I have verified that the hardware settings are IRQ 2 >(aka IRQ 9), ADDR 0xD000, and IOADDR 0x280. I've had some of this recently as well. I still haven't quite pinned it down, but it seems that there are some problems setting the configuration below a RAM address of DFFFF. The program DIAGNOSE will fail the RAM test (but not normally claim that the RAM is in use by something else). However, it looks as if this is related to other boards in the system - I have found that the diagnostic will find the RAM at D000 with one kind of IDE controller installed but not with another, with one kind of VGA card but not with another (Trident TVGA8900C with IRQ 2 disabled). I was trying the same config that you mention, but was unable to get it to work with the ``wrong'' IDE or VGA board. The standard diag program won't set the WD8003E config beyound DFFF, but the newer CMC EZSETUP program will - it will also show you that the WD8003E generates one wait state. I have been unable to get it to work at all without the wait state. All in all, my favourite board. Give me an NE2000 any time. -- Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489 Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany