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Subject: diskless boot problems with nb8390 on a SMC 8013 clone
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:28:00 +1100
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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I'm trying to boot FreeBSD-2.1.0 diskless on a 486SX/33 with an 8013
clone.  The card is fine if FreeBSD (or NetBSD or DOS or ...) are
booted from local disk.

Trying to use nb8390.com from DOS leaves me with a hung machine right
after the MAC address of the card is displayed.

After I use ctrl-alt-delete to bring the machine back the video memory
is corrupted; a hardware reset is then required to reboot the machine.

$ dmesg | grep ed0
ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 9 maddr 0xd8000 msize 16384 on isa
ed0: address 00:00:c0:53:28:30, type WD8013EBT (16 bit) 

I have compiled nb8390.com with -DINCLUDE_WD -DWD_DEFAULT_MEM=0xd8000.

Any help, hints, guesses would be appreciated.  The motherboard is
Micronics (think broken Gateway keyboards :-) but is otherwise
unremarkable as far as I know ...

Thanks,

Giles