Subject: Re: WD8013 died
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Scott Bartram <scottb@orionsoft.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/05/1995 12:36:39
> 
> 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.

No luck with this.

> > 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...

I've done this but no luck here either. I've booted straight to DOS and
run the SMC diagnostics with no response. This card is major-league dead.