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To: Justin Viiret <justin@cyburbia.bns.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Etherlink II card 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:06:04 -0700
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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