Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:45:23 -0600 From: Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net> To: Greg Barniskis <gregb@scls.lib.wi.us>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: de ethernet driver stomps SMC 10/100 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19961220004521.006c9ac0@wtrt.net>
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At 05:46 PM 12/26/96 -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: >We've got an SMC EtherPower 10/100 ethernet card installed in a Pentium >class >machine. The card runs fine under DOS, and when booting FreeBSD 2.1.5-R, >but as >the de0 driver loads, both the link light and the transmit/receive light >on the >SMC card go dead. The screen says: > > de0 <Digital DC21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 32 int a irq 11 on pci0:19 > de0: DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:5a:a8:e9 > de0: enabling 100baseTX UTP port I had a similar problem. First thing I did was to reconfigure the machine so that the ether card was on irq 10 instead of 11. Don't know if that helped or not. What did make a big difference was to reconfigure the kernel so that it didn't do any other probes on the same irq as the ether card. Seems the probes were somehow trashing the card. Allen Hyer System Administrator West Texas Rural Telephone
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