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Subject: SMC not clearning meory (was Re: [Q] aah-2940uw, ...)
In-Reply-To: <199701232250.OAA17262@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Jan 23, 97 02:50:06 pm"
To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:20:35 +1030 (CST)
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Jonathan M. Bresler stands accused of saying:
> 
> 	new problem.....the ethernet card, smc 8013ewc, does not work.
> 	the error message is 
> 
> 	ed0: failed to clear shared memory at cc000 - check configuration.
> 
> 	the card is hard jumpered to irq 10, ioaddr 300, mem cc000.
> 	worked great at that setting before i flashed the bios ;)
> 	installed 2.2-alpha via the this ethernet card at those settings.

There are some restrictions when it comes to having 8 and 16-bit
things living next to each other in the memory map; if you've diabled
the Video BIOS shadow it's possible that this will be griefing you...

> jmb

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