Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:06:04 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Justin Viiret <justin@cyburbia.bns.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Etherlink II card Message-ID: <199604271506.IAA02678@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:31:15 -0000." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960427182534.20593A-100000@cyburbia.bns.com.au>
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>Hi (again) everyone :) > > Thanks to the tip about the cyrix caching problem, I can now get to the >installation procedure... my problem NOW is that I can't get FreeBSD to >recognise my Etherlink II (I think the relevant number is BC503) card. > >System stats: Cyrix 486SLC system, AMIBIOS 12/12/91, 8MB RAM, pretty >standard equipment... trident 512k video card, two IDE HDDs. > >When running the boot disk I get 'unable to clear shared memory at >xxxxxx' (regardless of what I set the shared memory address to on the >card) ... is this a known problem? Should I (as I've been told) give up >with the ethernet card? It's not a known problem. There is something conflicting with your ethernet card. If it's an 8bit card, you might have a 16bit card that is conflicting with it in the same 128K address space (long story, basically ISA is really weird when it comes to 8/16bit selection; it's on 128K boundries). It's probably caused by your video card. You might try setting your display card to 8bit...or get a different (16bit) ethernet card. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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