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by **Dirk Kleinhesseli** » Sat, 26 Aug 1995 04:00:00

Hi,

We just got Compaq P90/16MB machines with EtherEZ SMC 8416T cards
and moved over Linux from our old 486's. The ethernet card is not
recognized by the kernel -- we compiled it for smc network drivers.
Can anyone please help us ? We are using kernel 1.2.11 . Any help
is greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Dirk

by **arp..** » Sun, 27 Aug 1995 04:00:00

> Hi,

> We just got Compaq P90/16MB machines with EtherEZ SMC 8416T cards
>and moved over Linux from our old 486's. The ethernet card is not
>recognized by the kernel -- we compiled it for smc network drivers.
>Can anyone please help us ? We are using kernel 1.2.11 . Any help
>is greatly appreciated. Thanks,

> Dirk

I don't remember all the details...this was a while ago, but here goes. I think
that if the EtherEZ is configured in memory-mapped mode, it works like the
SMC Elite Ultra card, and there is a Linux driver for that card.

To configure the EZ in memory-mapped mode, you need a utility from SMC. The
method described in the documentation works, but the configuration is lost when
the machine is rebooted (to go into Linux from DOS/Windows). Call SMC at
1-800-SMC-4-YOU for that utility...it's on the BBS.

Hope this helps.

Austin.

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