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Date:      Sat, 19 Sep 1998 13:33:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com>
To:        andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ed0 network driver problems in current or hardware error ???
Message-ID:  <199809192033.NAA05660@white.dogwood.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980919201514.A29126@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Sep 19, 98 08:15:14 pm"

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Andreas Klemm wrote:
> ed0 driver doesn't recognize my SMC 16 bit network card anymore
> 
> On startup:
>    ed0: failed to clear shared memory at d0000 - check configuration
>    ed0 not found at 0x280
> 
>    Is a WD8013 16 Bit card clone.
> 
>    Used the 
>    -rwxr-xr-x  1 andreas  andreas  45385 23 Sep  1991 ezsetup.exe
>    utility to make sure, that the settings 280/10/D0000
>    are ok. Shared memory is turned of in the card.

On my Pentium-166 system this happens when the BIOS is not set to
leave a hole at that address.  also for some reason, even though the
memory is only 16K it wants a 32K hole - otherwise i get the above
error.

-- 
Dave Cornejo - Dogwood Media, Fremont, California
General Magician & Registered Be Developer

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