Subject: Re: WD8013 died
To: Scott Bartram <scottb@orionsoft.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/05/1995 12:22:53
Scott Bartram writes:
> It may have been a coincidence but my SMC WD8013 network card died
> during or just after booting the 1.1 kcadp kernel. Even the DOS/SMC
> diagnostics floppy won't find it now.

You will probably find that power cycling fixes it but that resets do
not.

> I seem to remember some discussion of many months ago about one of
> the probe routines screwing up a network card and Charles(?) had some
> code to fix it. Or am I totally in left field on this one?

Things like this are often fixed by stripping things like the Mitsumi
CD driver out of the kernel. I suggest that you build a new kernel
with only exactly what you need, or ask someone else to do it for
you...

.pm