Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:13:33 -0500 From: rthomas@pamd.cig.mot.com (Robert Owen Thomas) To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Embarrassing problem re: ed0 Message-ID: <9509221013.ZM13707@pamd.cig.mot.com> In-Reply-To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> "Embarrassing problem re: ed0" (Sep 22, 2:09am) References: <199509220709.AAA10470@ref.tfs.com>
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hello, Julian-- yes, i have seen this problem as well. on a Packard-Bell Pentium machine. no matter which card i installed, no success! to top it off, it is the same problem you describe. i can not allocate any RAM (pick your favourite, D000, D8000, C0000, etc.). i suggest you run the diagnostic tests that are supplied by the ethernet card vendors. i ran the diagnostics for the 3Com Etherlink III and SMC/16 cards, and both failed to allocate or find a free RAM space. not good. for a time, i suspected a DMA conflict. this does not seem to be the case. in the end, i replaced the motherboard... does anyone else have a happy ending to this problem? 8-( incidentally, the BIOS was the same on the new and the old motherboard, AMIBIOS. you will have better luck, if you can use 10 Base-T, with the Ether EZ card from Western Digital/SMC. this card does not use shared RAM, and works just fine with my old offending motherboard. regards and sympathies, --robert -- o robert owen thomas: unix consultant. cymro ydw i. user scratching post. o o e-mail: Robert.Thomas@pamd.cig.mot.com --or-- robt@cymru.com o o vox: 708.435.7076 fax: 708.435.7360 o o "When I die, I want to go sleeping like my grandfather... o o Not screaming like the passengers in his car." o
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