FYI I think that card doesn't have enough receive buffer space...
but I might be wrong  - has been known :-)

If you get abysmal ftp of nfs performance you need a better card.

    David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@home.com>
To: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Kernel config confusion (resolution)


> > if there the card is not listed in the boot messages (see dmesg), then
> > it's settings may not agree with your kernel settings. The GENERIC
> > kernel (1.5.2) has
> >
> >   we0     at isa? port 0x280 iomem 0xd0000 irq 9  # WD/SMC Ethernet
> >   we1     at isa? port 0x300 iomem 0xcc000 irq 10
> >
> > which I think is the device for the SMC 8003 family.
> >
> > If this is the case, then you can either change the card settings to
> > match the kernel config, or visa-versa(?)
> 
> Well, this turned out to be the case.  In addition, the EtherEZ has a mode
> that doesn't use a shared memory buffer to communicate.  I modified my card
> settings to use the memory mapped settings, the proper IRQ and turned OFF
> PnP and the system recognized my card.  Incidentally the setup program I had
> (EZStart) only showed the first four digits of the memory buffer address,
> but I set it up for 0xCC00 and it worked just fine.
>