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- From: danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson)
- Subject: Re: ESIX net driver for SMC Elite 16T
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163406.14851@lgc.com>
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- References: <1993Jan25.215243.31@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:34:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.215243.31@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, slj@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (S. Luke Jones) writes:
- |> I'm running, or trying to run, a 386 clone with ESIX 4.0.4 on a
- |> network most of whose nodes are DOS boxes running Novell Netware. The
- |> board in the 386 clone is an SMC Elite 16T, which, according to SMC,
- |> uses ESIX's WD8013 driver. Whenever the network is plugged into the
- |> board, I get console messages
- |>
- |> wd8013: bad nxt pkt value: nxtpkt = 000000FF
- |>
- |> about 2-3/sec. I think (i.e., my operating hunch is) this is because
- |> our Novell client boxes are speaking type II ethernet, which has a
- |> src/dst/type instead of src/dst/len fields. I think the wd8013 driver
- |> can't handle that, and bellyaches about it on the console.
- |>
- |> My question is whether anyone else out there has seen this and/or
- |> knows how to get around it. The ESIX tech support folks said they
- |> would look into it and get back to me on Friday (29 Jan).
- |>
- |> Thanks in advance.
- |> --
- |> S. L u k e Jones jones@inuxy.att.com ...!att!inuxy!jones 317-845-6446
- |> AT&T Bell Labs // Consumer Communications Services Center (this week)
- |> Room INH 3J-412 // PO Box 1008 // 6612 E 75th St. // Indianapolis IN 46250
- |> "I was ECONOMICALLY COERCED into signing away my RIGHTS to these OPINIONS!"
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- I had the same problem with UHC SVR4 on my 386/33. It turned out for me that
- I had to reconfigure my BIOS (via standard setup or at boot), to _NOT_ cache
- the area of memory used by the SMC controller card (i.e. D0000-D3fff). After
- that, I had no further problems!
-
- Hope this helps,
- Doug
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