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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>
To: sfinn@pobox.com
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Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower Help
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The latest if_de.c (& dc21040.h) in -current /usr/src/sys/pci understand how
the enet address is encoded on newer ROMs.  I had this problem with a recent
DE500-XA using the 21140 chip. 

I dropped in the new driver on my 2.0.5-950622-SNAP system and the card has
been working ever since. 

-Chris




On Thu, 19 Oct 1995 sfinn@pobox.com wrote:

> OK...after some pretty inspired recommendations on Ethernet adapters
> from you folks I went out and bought some SMC EtherPower cards for
> my three FreeBSD machines...I rebuilt the kernel including device de0,
> installed and rebooted and got this:
> 
> de0 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:18
>         reg20: virtual=0xf5c5700 physical=0xf0211000size=0x80
> de0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4) (0000000000000000000000000000000000
> 0001010000c083be001e00000008
> de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address unknown
> 
> Anybody got a clue as to what is wrong? It appears to have the Ethernet
> address imbedded in the numeric string it barfs out, but it doesn't get
> it.....and neither do I.....HELP!!!
> 
> -Shaun
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