Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:05:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Scot Elliott <se4@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 & SMC Elite 16 card Message-ID: <199607260505.WAA21874@root.com> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960726091338.16323L@mother.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:36:55 BST." <m0uf18B-000FaXC@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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>Hi... I'm currently trying to get my SMC Elite 16 card working with FreeBSD >v2.1. It is configured for soft-config on the card, and the kernel >settings for ed0 and ed1 are default. > >The card is picked up at boot-time on ed0 (0x280, IRQ-5, 0x0, 0xd8000 ) - and >there is only conflict with ed1 which is disabled. > >However, when setup using ifconfig (ifconfig ed0 10.10.10.1 netmask >255.255.255.0 up), the device driver simply spits a lot of timeout errors to >my console, and the machine cannot be pinged from anywhere on the network. >However, it is picking up ARP requests, as other machines have the card >in their arp-cache. > >This is pretty odd... and I have tried removing all other cards with no positive >result > >If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.. (And yes... I have tried >another card). Timeouts are caused when the system doesn't receive the transmit complete interrupt after the packet has been transmitted. This can be caused by the interrupt that is set on the card not matching the kernel configuration or can be caused by another card conflicting with the same interrupt. You may wish to check the soft config and make sure that it is set for irq 5. You may also wish to try a different interrupt (like irq10). If your machine is a PCI machine, you may wish to check the BIOS to make sure that irq5 (or whatever irq you decide to use) is properly allocated to the ISA bus. There are no known bugs in the 'ed' driver and SMC Elite 16 cards are known to work fine (have been specifically tested in the release). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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