Re: smc-ultra module loads but base address changes in ifconfig

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From: Jeremy Malcolm
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00

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In comp.os.linux.networking Kevin Lamonte <kevinl@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote:

> My SMC8416T won't load without specifying base also, and ifconfig still
> gets it wrong, but otherwise it works fine.

Huh?!  Well maybe the ethernet card is not at fault then - but I've
checked out the cabling and the routing and both of them seem fine... the
cable is a crossover ethernet cable (I only have two hosts and no hub),
perhaps does that not work with the SMC cards?  (I can't think why it
wouldn't...)  Apart from ifconfig there are no other indications that the
card is not working - no  SIO???? type messages like you mentioned.  On
the contrary all the diagnostics suggest the card is working, except that
I can't ping to it from the other host, and when I try to ping the other
host from it the packets are shown going out, but the other host doesn't
receive them (even setting the interface to promiscuous, in case I got the
routing wrong, which I didn't).

Grr.  I even tried to borrow a friend's NE2000 but the crossover cable
wouldn't fit into it (!!) so maybe I'll have to cannibalise another card
from work over Christmas...

Which reminds me, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

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From: Jeremy Malcolm <terminus@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: smc-ultra module loads but base address changes in ifconfig
Date: 1998/12/24
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