Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:36:39 -0600 (CST) From: stevenfarmer@worldnet.att.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Card - SMC 8416 Message-ID: <199703051836.MAA00251@pro200.farmer.org> In-Reply-To: <100512629@toto.iv>
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I bought an SMC 8416BT "EtherEZ" card by mistake. I decided to try it before returning it, and surprised myself by getting it to work. It uses a proprietary SMC83C795 chip and no WD chip compatibility is mentioned in the manual. I used the supplied EZStart program under DOS to configure it. I disabled Plug and Play, and used i/o mapped mode with a base address of 0x280 and irq 5. My FreeBSD 2.1.6 config: % grep ed0 /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PRO200 device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr % dmesg | grep ed0 ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 maddr 0xd8000 msize 8192 on isa ed0: address 00:00:c0:25:72:e2, type SMC8416C/SMC8416BT (16 bit) I did run into one bit of wierdness though. After installing the 8416, my Sportster internal modem stopped working and I had to move it from com2/irq3 to com1/irq4 to get it going again. This is very strange, since there are no evident irq, i/o address or com port conflicts with any other devices. Irq 5 was my only choice for the 8416 given my other hardware, and none of the other available i/o base addresses made any difference. irqs 10 and 11 are supported by the 8416 on the eisa bus, but mine's in a plain isa slot. I just *hate* an unsolved mystery like this, but I'm a pc newbie and probably overlooking something obvious. Can't comment on how robust the card is under heavy load. Mine talks to a gandalf LANLine ISDN bridge and I've been using it to telecommute for several weeks now. Steve Doug White writes: > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, David Empey wrote: > > > I have a network card installed, an SMC 8416, which doesn't appear to > > be supported . I tried the driver for the SMC 80XX cards to no avail. > > You mean the ed0 driver? > > The Handbook doesn't list one of these, can you find out what the WD chip > is on it? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >
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