From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 20:18:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA00371 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 May 1995 20:18:32 -0700 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA00360 for ; Sat, 6 May 1995 20:18:28 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with UUCP id XAA17483 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 May 1995 23:18:03 -0400 Received: (from gene@localhost) by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA07295; Sat, 6 May 1995 09:06:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 09:06:09 -0400 From: Gene Stark Message-Id: <199505061306.JAA07295@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: Jeff Haynes Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Jeff Haynes's message of Fri, 5 May 1995 23:44:42 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Driver for SMC Ultra ethernet card. Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I am trying to get an SMC elite ultra working in FreeBSD. I assumed that >I am supposed to use the ed0 driver, but upon boot up I get a message that >says "failed to clear shared memory at c8000 - check configuration". >I have the config on the card set to irq 10 io base 280 iomem c8000. >The SMC "ezstart" utility shows the adapter type as 8216T. What driver >do I use for this card? If it is ed0, any suggestions on what might >be wrong? The ed driver is correct, and we are using many of these drivers without a problem. Are you sure c8000 isn't in use by some video card memory or something? I usually set my Ultras to d0000 or d8000, or e0000 or e8000 for the second adapter in a system. I suggest trying d8000 and see what happens. - Gene Stark