Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:55:26 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com> To: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" <charles_dinkey@non.hp.com> Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Strange SMC 8216 NIC behavior Message-ID: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAGEPFDIAA.dpoland@execpc.com> In-Reply-To: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C531358@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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> > Doug (dpoland@execpc.com) said: > > > > I'm installing 3.1R on a machine with an SMC8216T NIC. > > When I do the full-screen config, I set the parameters > > for the NIC according to the DIPs (I/O Base: 300, IRQ: 10, > > RAM Base: 0xcc000). I continue with an NFS install and > > the NIC connects to the NFS server and everything is fine. > > > > However, when I boot the machine after the install, > > dmesg says: > > > > ed0 not found at 0x280 > > > > An ifconfig -a does not list ed0. When I do and > > ifconfig ed0 10.20.1.129 255.255.0.0 it tells me > > ed0 does not exist. > > > > > Gene said: > > When you first configure it your setting the device > up to use io 300, the generic kernel is trying to > find the device at 280. You probably need to go > in and adjust the options for the kernel driver > and recompile the kernel. > Gene, I thought the full-screen config parameters were re-applied every time the kernel boots using sysctl or something like that. In fact, I've done this same install on 4 computers in th= last month, all with the same SMC NIC, and this is the only one to exhibit this behavior. I'm obviously missing something here. The other installs were 3.4R and 4.0R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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