todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara) (04/24/91)
Has anyone solved the problem of trying to get a Western Digital EtherCard Plus (WD8003E) to work in a computer that also has a Digiboard PC/16i card (a 16 port serial board)? I just found out that the EtherCard Plus is somehow colliding with my Digiboard. If anyone has figured this one out, please let me know. Here are the particulars. Interactive UNIX 2.2 (UNIX System V/386 R3) Interactive UNIX TCP/IP 1.2 Everex Step 386/33 w/8M RAM, 80387, 600M Maxtor ESDI hard disk 150M Wangtek tape drive and controller Everex VGA card (I stuck it in an 8-bit slot to prevent collisions with the Ethernet card) Digiboard PC/16i (no IRQ set as per instructions, I/O port=120, Memory start=F00000) EtherCard Plus WD8003E(IRQ=4[I disabled COM1: to use this IRQ], I/O port=280, memory blk=E0000-E1FFF) The only way I can get two WD8003E cards to talk to each other is to pull out the Digiboard from my Everex. My distributer (Viatek) is looking into this problem. But I thought I'd check the net in case they can't figure a way out of this problem. -- Todd Ogasawara ::: Hawaii Medical Service Association Internet ::: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com Telephone ::: (808) 536-9162 ext. 7
todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara) (04/27/91)
In article <1991Apr24.005744.285@pinhead.pegasus.com> todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara) writes: >Has anyone solved the problem of trying to get a Western Digital EtherCard >Plus (WD8003E) to work in a computer that also has a Digiboard PC/16i card >(a 16 port serial board)? > >I just found out that the EtherCard Plus is somehow colliding with my >Digiboard. If anyone has figured this one out, please let me know. Here are >the particulars. After a lot of experimenting I finally got my WD8003 EtherPlus Card to work with my Digiboard PC/16i board. It turned out that the WD8003 only worked reliably (i.e., no panics) when its address was set to D0000-D1ffff. So, I set it back to D0000 like everyone suggested. The big trick to get everything to work was a jumper on the Digiboard. DigiBoard and my vendor advised me to change jumper J3 from pins 2&3 to pins 1&2. This changed the size of the dual ported memory on the board from 128K to 64K. I was able to leave the memory address alone. In any case, with these changes have finally allowed me to connect a bunch of people on a Token Ring based Novell LAN to an Ethernet equipped UNIX box using TCP/IP. -- Todd Ogasawara ::: Hawaii Medical Service Association Internet ::: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com Telephone ::: (808) 536-9162 ext. 7