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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.Arizona.EDU!aspc15.as.arizona.edu!not-for-mail From: tom@aspc15.as.arizona.edu (Tom Trebisky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC 8013BT EEPROM parameters lost Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:22:34 -0700 Organization: Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona Lines: 29 Message-ID: <51psna$c9p@aspc15.as.arizona.edu> References: <50f1io$5ug@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <322DA3E3.2781E494@baynetworks.com> <50oqim$fvh@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> <519884$98n@bagend.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: aspc15.as.arizona.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4613 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27491 This dad-gummed problem -- just bit me again, when I was setting up two systems. Here is what I experienced, and an easy fix: Start with an 8013 card soft configured to io port 300, irq 10, ... to be recognized as ed2 by the generic kernel. The kernel tromps on the card and it no longer is recognized at all. I keep a DOS bootable floppy with the "EZSETUP" program on it for these "occasions". Putting this floppy in and hitting reset, the EZSETUP program announces there is no network card in the system. (BTW, you can get this handy program from the SMC www site, in a big self-exploding ETHER.EXE which has drivers for DOS and other such worlds). However (and this is the good news), power the system off for a while and then turn it back on and run the EZSETUP program and it finds the card and is happy to reconfigure it. This has worked for me twice. Typically, I turn the computer off, go to find the info about how to patch the card via debug, and when I turn it back on to do this, "voila!". May it work this nicely for you.... Tom -- Tom Trebisky Steward Observatory ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu University of Arizona (520) 621-5135 Tucson, Arizona 85721