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Am having trouble configuring my new SMC 8432T under Solaris 2.5.1.  I
installed the OS using an SMC ISA card, the 8416.  No trouble, Solaris
saw it.

Now I've swapped out cards for the PCI version, and Solaris doesn't
see the new adapter.  Notably, the HCL supports the card, but I've
read *somewhere* recently that the card must be configured to use a
memory range between C8000 and DE000.  The card ships at E0000.  The
EZstart utility won't alter that setting.  SMC says that my PCI Bios
has to do the work.  But, in my Asus P6NP5 m/b, I can only force the
interrupt on that slot.

I can tell Win95 to force the card to D0000, though once re-booted, it
defaults back to E0000.

Any way to force the Mem address prior to Solaris startup? Or within
Solaris itself?  I've looked through /platform/x86/dev/kernal/smc.conf
but that appears to apply to SMC's ISA and MCA cards only.

 GF> Am having trouble configuring my new SMC 8432T under Solaris
 GF> 2.5.1.  I installed the OS using an SMC ISA card, the 8416.  No
 GF> trouble, Solaris saw it.

 GF> Now I've swapped out cards for the PCI version, and Solaris
 GF> doesn't see the new adapter.  Notably, the HCL supports the card,
 GF> but I've read *somewhere* recently that the card must be
 GF> configured to use a memory range between C8000 and DE000.  The
 GF> card ships at E0000.  The EZstart utility won't alter that
 GF> setting.  SMC says that my PCI Bios has to do the work.  But, in
 GF> my Asus P6NP5 m/b, I can only force the interrupt on that slot.

 GF> I can tell Win95 to force the card to D0000, though once
 GF> re-booted, it defaults back to E0000.

 GF> Any way to force the Mem address prior to Solaris startup? Or
 GF> within Solaris itself?  I've looked through
 GF> /platform/x86/dev/kernal/smc.conf but that appears to apply to
 GF> SMC's ISA and MCA cards only.

This is all BS.  What you need to do is make sure you are at DU5.  Get
distribution disks and install the patches and do a 'b -r' at the
secondary boot promt.  Every is automagic with PCI.

cfs
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Quote:> ...  Every is automagic with PCI.

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