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- From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes)
- Subject: Hard boot needed for WD ethernet card to be recognized
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.190622.26756@ugle.unit.no>
- Originator: he@spurv.runit.sintef.no
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Computing Center at the University of Trondheim, Norway
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:06:22 GMT
- Lines: 24
-
- Hi,
-
- I've not seen this mentioned before, so I thought I should ask whether any-
- one else have the same problem I have. Yesterday we installed 386BSD 0.1 on
- the following system:
-
- ISA-based 486/33, 8MB
- Adaptec SCSI (1542B?) on ISA, 240MB Quantum SCSI disk
- 3.5" and 5.25" floppies (not sure on which controller, though)
- WD80013EBT (?) ethernet card (the WD8003E wouldn't work, this
- was before the recent patch and we never
- got around to putting the old card back)
-
- However, we've seen the error I'm about to describe on another system as
- well.
-
- The error is that one have to do a hard reset of the machine in order for
- the autoconfigure to find the ethernet card! If you simply reboot (as when
- you're logged in via telnet), it won't find the ethernet card. Either a
- press of the reset switch or a power cycle appears to be necessary.
-
- Is this a known problem?
-
- - Havard
-