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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!out2.nntp.cais.net!news2.cais.com!news From: "Eric V. Smith" <EricSmith@windsor.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SMC 9332 BDT problem Date: 13 Jun 1997 00:49:56 GMT Organization: Windsor Software Corp Lines: 59 Message-ID: <01bc7792$d6246050$1160b5c7@carew> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.176.55.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42816 I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 via FTP when using an SMC 9332 BDT (PCI) in an HP Vectra VE. When I first boot it up, the link light is on solid and the Tx/Rx light is blinking. When the devices get configured, it is correctly identified as a DEC 21140A chip, and it reports the MAC address correctly. However, the link light goes out and the Tx/Rx light stops blinking. After I configure it to install via FTP, I configure the network. When it gets to the screen that says "Adding default route to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", it stops for several minutes, eventually returning with an error that says "Cannot resolve hostname xxxxx. Are you sure that your name server, gateway, and network interface are correctly configured?" I'm positive that they are. (I've done this any number of times.) Switching to the text screen (Alt-F2), there is a line that says "DEBUG: Init routine called for network device de0.", followed by "add net default: gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx". Nothing here looks abnormal. If I specify the FTP URL as an IP address instead of a domain name, I get further, but I get a similar error later. I've tried not specifying a DNS server nor a default gateway, and I get the same problem. I've tried all combinations of link flags to ifconfig, to no avail. The output from ifconfig looks reasonable. From the source to the de driver, it looks like it is only using link0 and link2 anyway. They system automatically selects link2, which I believe means the twisted pair jack (which is all this card has anyway). I thought that maybe it was trying to put it into 100 Mb mode (I'm running a 10 Mb 10BaseT network), so I forced it into 10 Mb mode via the ezstart program. This makes no difference. In any event, the 100 Mb light never comes on. I've tried 2 different cards, plus network cables and jacks that are known to work. Still no joy. I've tried different PCI slots, I've tried disabling everything I could in the BIOS, and still nothing. After it ifconfig's, I've tried pinging it from another box on the same segment, but it doesn't respond. It doesn't even send an ARP reply. If I force an ARP entry, it still doesn't do anything. I've tried both the normal boot.flp and the one in the newer directory. Both produce the same results. Does anyone have any clues? I've tried everything I can think of. I've searched the net, the SMC site, the FreeBSD site, FAQ's, etc., and still I can't find anything. Has anyone ever gotten this card to work? If this fails, I'm going to return my 5 SMC cards (I've got a lot of machines to install) and switch to something else. What other PCI 10/100 cards should I consider? Thanks in advance. Eric.