From: lenneis@statrix1.wu-wien.ac.at (Joerg Lenneis) Subject: Re: [Q] SLS+0.99+TCPIP+SMC16 Date: 17 Dec 1992 17:11:57 GMT
In article <865@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, broadley@lrdc5 (Bill Broadley) writes:
|> I have been enjoying linux greatly, having fun watching things progress. We
|> recently received a new gateway ATI PRO 66Mhz machine, which I immediately blew
|> away the disk and installed a linux partition.
|>
|> I installed the sls distribution and updated to 0.99. Has anyone taken
|> this configuration and gotten any of the tcpip stuff to work with an SMC card?
|>
|> I just got and read the new NET FAQ for 0.99 and still can't get anything
|> to work. During bootup I get the syntax for /usr/etc/inet/config displayed
|> twice during boot up. I am fairly sure I answered all the
|> /usr/etc/inet/install.inet problems appropiately. I know that the IRQ and I/O
|> address's are right, (IRQ 5 And i/o 280) becuase dos uses them and works.
|> Also the memory address were right stock (D0000).
|>
|> One other strange thing is when I soft boot into dos, the tcpip there doesn't
|> work, but if I hard boot into dos it does. (this is reliable). Seems that
|> linux is locking up the ELITE SMC 16 card somehow.
|>
|> Any ideas appreciated, all commands come back with network is unreachable.
|>
|> Please reply to address below or POST.
|> --
|> Bill
|> Broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu
Have you recompiled the kernel with the proper parameters for the
SMC Elite set? It requires 16k of shared memory, not 8k as the WD8003
does. This occupies d000-d400 and not d000-d200. I am not sure what
is compiled into the distribution, but to be on the safe side you
might want to recompile. Look out for the file space.c under the
/usr/src/linux/net tree and change the parameters there.
-- Joerg LenneisUniversity of Economics and Business Adminstration Department for Applied Statistics and Data Processing Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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