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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!iscnvx!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems with a SMC Elite16 (WD8013EPC) Message-ID: <1992Nov7.021451.8794@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <martin.720806663@bert> <BxAvJG.ByF@NeoSoft.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:14:51 GMT Lines: 13 In article <BxAvJG.ByF@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >We have a WD "Elite" 8-bit ethernet board that won't retain its >settings (as set up by "ezsetup") after power off. > >That's not supposed to happen, and believe me, it was a bitch to figure >out. Me too. Actually it was an SMC 8003EP. The real kicker is that I could ping to and from the bad system if I changed the broadcast to the IP address of the remote. I still don't understand this (echo maybe?), but putting printf's in the we driver revealed that there were no receive interrupts when it was allegedly receiving. To the source! -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>