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Jeremy Malcolm (terminus@odyssey.apana.org.au) wrote:
[...]
: ping its IP address.  dmesg shows that the kernel is using the correct
: io and irq addresses (10 and 300, pretty standard).
: However when I run ifconfig it shows the irq base address as 310, not
: 300!  Consequently the networking won't work at all.  I have experimented
: by changing the module to wd (which is sort-of compatible with smc-ultra)
: but this only made things worse: I started getting kernel error messages
: "Tx timed out, lost interrupt?".
[...]
In your `/etc/conf.modules` (or /etc/modules.conf, same thing), put
the following lines:
options smc-ultra io=0x300 irq=10
alias eth smc-ultra 

Of course you load up smc-ultra with modprobe so the "8390" module is
loaded up automagically as well. You may want to double check that the
jumper isn't on the "Program by Software" setting but on the "Use IRQ 10,
IO 300, Memory D000-D4000, with no ROM Setting" (you know what I mean :).


David Magda <dmagda at acs.ryerson.ca>, 2nd Year Electrical Eng.
   "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and
   think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do,
   there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better 
   than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
                        - A. A. Milne, _The_House_at_Pooh_Corner_