From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 19:06:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA26852 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:06:00 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA26830 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:05:56 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA01186; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:05:48 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509230205.TAA01186@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Embarrassing problem re: ed0 To: rthomas@pamd.cig.mot.com (Robert Owen Thomas) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9509221013.ZM13707@pamd.cig.mot.com> from "Robert Owen Thomas" at Sep 22, 95 10:13:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1859 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk And the winning suggestion is: > After all sorts of tests > I can pretty much prove the MB is f*cked.. > > SMC's diags fail on it from dos.. > on any number of their cards.... > > thanks to those that made suggestions! look in the advance bios menu selection for disable shadow memory set it to 0xd0000 and shadow memory size of 64k the card won't work in DOS or FreeBSD without this disabled. --mark. > > 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 >