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Date:      Fri, 08 Sep 1995 22:52:00 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@sidwell.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMC Ethernet card (EzEther) in PnP Pentium 
Message-ID:  <199509090552.WAA25861@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Sep 95 01:21:49 EDT." <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950908223002.5746A-100000@gateway.us.sidwell.edu> 

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>configuration as under my old car, things don't work right.  I get 
>various errors (timeouts on ed0 on installation attemts, etc.)  The card 
>is recognized by the driver though, ethernet address, etc. 
>
>Does anyone have any experience getting this card to talk to freebsd?  or 
>vice versa?  I tried hard configuring, but Windows 95 (which I am runingn 
>until freebsd starts working with the card) has a tendancy to reconfigure 
>using PnP, but FreeBSD doesn't.

   The EtherEZ is known working with FreeBSD. The problem you've described
sounds very much like either the irq isn't configured correctly in the kernel,
or the media type isn't selcted properly (isn't there a soft config program
that came with the card to set this??). You might try setting the irq to -1
in 'userconfig' (-c at boot). This will tell the driver to attempt to use the
irq setting it discovers from the card. Sorry I can't be more help at the
moment; I hope these clues are useful.

-DG



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