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by **Dirk Kleinhesseli** » Mon, 28 Aug 1995 04:00:00

Hi,

I've got a Compaq 90Mhz Pentium with a SMC 8416 EtherEZ card. When
I booted my system, the kernel did not recognize the ethernet device,
even though I compiled the kernel with SMC and SMC-ultra support. I
checked the hardware I/O address the card uses under DOS, which was
x260 (IRQ 3) and checked the smc-ultra.c code in the drivers/net
directory. The smc probe was looking at 200, 220, 240, 280, 300 ...,
but not 260. I modified this and rebuilt the kernel. When I boot up, the
kernel finds the card, correctly identifies it as SMC EtherEZ and gets the
IRQ right, but I can't connect anywhere (or ping). ifconfig indicates
that eth0 is up, but if I send out packets, netstat -i shows that packets
are being sent out ok TX OK, but all recived packets are errors (RX ERR
count keeps increasing, never an RX OK). Is this a problem with the
card set up ? (i.e. the Ethernet HOWTO says the card has to be set for
shared memory) If so, how to set the card up ?

Thanks very much,
Dirk

by **Donald Beck** » Mon, 28 Aug 1995 04:00:00

> I've got a Compaq 90Mhz Pentium with a SMC 8416 EtherEZ card. When
>I booted my system, the kernel did not recognize the ethernet device,
>even though I compiled the kernel with SMC and SMC-ultra support. I
>checked the hardware I/O address the card uses under DOS, which was
>x260 (IRQ 3) and checked the smc-ultra.c code in the drivers/net
>directory. The smc probe was looking at 200, 220, 240, 280, 300 ...,
>but not 260. I modified this and rebuilt the kernel. When I boot up, the

You could have fixed this without making a new kernel by either moving the
card's I/O address or adding the following line to /etc/lilo.conf
append = "ether=0,0x260,eth0"

Quote:>kernel finds the card, correctly identifies it as SMC EtherEZ and gets the
>IRQ right, but I can't connect anywhere (or ping). ifconfig indicates
>that eth0 is up, but if I send out packets, netstat -i shows that packets
>are being sent out ok TX OK, but all recived packets are errors (RX ERR
>count keeps increasing, never an RX OK). Is this a problem with the
>card set up ? (i.e. the Ethernet HOWTO says the card has to be set for
>shared memory) If so, how to set the card up ?

Check for error messages in /usr/adm/messages -- you'll probably have a few.
My guess is that your motherboard BIOS isn't setup correctly for a shared
memory card.

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by **Conor Cunningh** » Mon, 04 Sep 1995 04:00:00

>> I've got a Compaq 90Mhz Pentium with a SMC 8416 EtherEZ card. When
>>I booted my system, the kernel did not recognize the ethernet device,
>>even though I compiled the kernel with SMC and SMC-ultra support. I
>>checked the hardware I/O address the card uses under DOS, which was
>>x260 (IRQ 3) and checked the smc-ultra.c code in the drivers/net
>>directory. The smc probe was looking at 200, 220, 240, 280, 300 ...,
>>but not 260. I modified this and rebuilt the kernel. When I boot up, the

I found that when I installed this card on my p-100 it had trouble
with the Plug-n-Play junk. If you have "legacy" (non-PnP) cards, I
suggest that you run the dos utility and turn OFF PnP on the board so
that it will not steal addresses and irqs from your other devices.

Conor

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