aland@infmx.informix.com (Colonel Panic) (12/11/90)
I'm having a somewhat bizarre problem changing to a newer-generation
ports card on an existing 386 UNIX box.
The players: AT&T 6386E/33 (33 MHz 386, Intel-made) w/24MB
AT&T UNIX System V/386 Rel 3.2.2
WIN/TCP for 386 STREAMS Release 3.1.0
WD8003E Ethernet Card
Consensys PowerPorts 16/512 16-port card
(to be replaced by:
Consensys PowerPorts/HD 32-port card)
The problem: the existing setup is working dandy. I went to replace
the existing 16-port card with the new HD card. Once the hardware and
software are installed and I reboot, I get lots of messages out of
the network driver (specifically, the n8390_recv() function). The
network software, however, appears to still work to some degree (I can
rlogin to the machine with one session just fine).
The ports card and network card have nonconflicting i/o base addresses,
and nonconflicting shared memory addresses (the ports card uses
CE000-CFFFF; the network card uses D0000-D1FFF). I have tried moving
the shared memory addresses of both with no impact. The ports card
uses defaults for everything, while the network card uses i/o base
240H and IRQ2. The network card is in slot #1, and the ports card is
in slot #4, if that means anything.
When I gave up and reinstalled the old ports card, things are hunky
dory again.
Any ideas appreciated.
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Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
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