ash@relay.eu.net (Andrew Hardie) (02/19/91)
I am struggling with the installation of a Western Digital 16-bit Ethercard plus. I am not sure quite where the problem lies. The box (Compaq 386/25) and the OS (SCO UNIX 3.2R2 with TCP/IP 1.1.1) and choice of I/O (240) and IRQ (2) seem to be OK and an 8-bit Ethercard works fine in same location and with same settings. After realising that the MAC address seems to be read and fixed in when the kernel is relinked, I have been most careful to do a remove on the wdn, relink, then install wdn and relink again. Still no luck. Symptoms are: either (a) doesn't work at all or (b) works once and then quits (i.e. you can ping the host once either in or out, and that works, but that's it and nothing more works over the net) Suggestions, please? Also, the WD docs say that 128K RAM is used when running under UNIX; what is the best address to use in the mkdev wdn to get the benefit of this? The usual D000 is refused if a memory size of 128K is specified. Supplier's comment was that "they only ever assigned 8K RAM when using this board"; this strikes me as a waste of a high-performance board. Thanks -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Hardie ash@omega.uucp | | London, England ukc!cctal!omega!ash | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
RLN101@uriacc.uri.edu ( Marshall Feldman) (02/21/91)
I too am in the process of bringing up UNIX (ODT) with a WD 16 bit board. I am getting some very wierd results and plan to call SCO once my network wiring is complete (one problem I have is no wire hooked up to the board yet). Please let me know of any tips you come up with, and I will to let you know what SCO tells me. Also, I didn't quite follow what you said about the MAC. Can you elaborate? Marsh Feldman Community Planning 204 Rodman Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0815 (rln101 @ uriacc.uri.edu) 401/792-2248
chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) (02/24/91)
In article <26074@adm.brl.mil> RLN101@uriacc.uri.edu ( Marshall Feldman) writes: >I too am in the process of bringing up UNIX (ODT) with a WD 16 bit board. There are two things you need to watch for: - Your selection of the memory buffer address of the ethernet card is not stepping upon video memory. - You must modify /etc/conf/sdevice.d/wdn0 to account for the fact that this card has twice the memory of the WD8003. For example, if you select `d0000' as the start address, your end address must be `d3fff' and not `d1fff'. -- Chip Rosenthal 512-482-8260 | Unicom Systems Development | I saw Elvis in my wtmp file. <chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM> |