Re: Hello, and a few questions about installing and Console on Serial.

[Gabe Kangas <real-ity@real-ity.com>]

Funny, my first attempt was also the Intel card ;)

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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Michael Bacon wrote:

Interesting.  I went with an EtherEZ after I had wierd inexplicable problems with a
second Intel EtherExpress 16.   I replaced one with the SMC, and had some difficulty
with specifically set parameters.  When that didn't work, I tried PnP.  I had
success when I recompiled the kernel with the explicit we0 and we1 lines I included
below commented out, and just the we? at isapnp?.  Now, works like a charm.  This
text passed through the very card.... ;)

PCI would obviously be a much better solution, but unfortunately AT&T 486's just
don't have the slots :(.  Thus, some of us are still hopelessly mired in the world
of ISA.

Michael

Gabe Kangas wrote:

> I also, am one who attempted life with an SMC.  I failed.  I went out and
> bought a cheap PCI card at CDW for $23 that works great though ;)
>
> Yea, you can download the utils and stuff from the site.. but I found them
> to be no help to me.  It'll setup irq's and such, and tell you to put it
> in soft config, and reboot.. but that never worked :)
>
> I do wish you luck, though!
>
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> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jeff Bachtel wrote:
>
> 1) www.smc.com has the etherez utilities (and they should be freely
> distributable)
>
> 2) PnP mode on an EtherEZ doesn't work for crap, search the list
> archives for the proper settings to place an EZ in to get it to work in
> ne2k mode (although even that did not work for me, and I ended up
> borrowing an etherlink II)
>
> jeff
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:18:27AM -0400, Michael Bacon wrote:
> > Joe Pepin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > So, does anyone know where I can download the software for the Ether EZ?
> >
> > I beleive SMC's website has it.  If not, I've got the EtherEZ disk sitting in
> > front of me, and could either email or otherwise get you the config utilities.
> > (I'm reasonably certain they're freely distributable?)
> >
> > Try it in PnP mode first, then if that doesn't work, try one of the following
> > settings:
> >
> > we0     at isa? port 0x280 iomem 0xd0000 irq 9  # WD/SMC 80x3 ethernet
> > we1     at isa? port 0x300 iomem 0xcc000 irq 10 #
> >
> >