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Date:      Fri, 05 Jan 1996 19:56:48 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMC PCI card - Cant load 2.1R 
Message-ID:  <199601060356.TAA03975@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 96 15:56:04 EST." <199601052056.PAA09797@etinc.com> 

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>I've been trying to load 2.1R via NFS with an AP5C 120mhz Pentium with
>an SMC EtherPower card (I've used this card successfully with FreeBSD
>before) and it doesnt work. It probes the card properly (de0) but when it 
>goes to NFS attach it failes (portmap failure..)...I have a lan moniter and 
>nothing is being put out by the card. Putting an NE2000 into the box and it 
>loads just fine. 
>
>After bringing the machine up...it is apparent that the card doesn't work
>in the box at all. It doesn't hang, and you dont get an error...but the
>card doesn't transmit anything.

   Perhaps an interrupt assignment? Is the BIOS assigning a reasonable, non-
conflict interrupt to the card? Look in the BIOS configuration and/or at irq
in the probe/attach messages during the kernel startup for this.
   Does the card continue to work in some other PCI machine, and just not in
this one?

>I've used this card before (not with this MB)..is there a bug fix or something 
>that I've missed?

   There aren't any known bugs in the driver released in 2.1.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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