William O Ferry drunkenly mumbled...
> 
>     A word of warning:  If you're using a generic netbsd kernel *DO NOT*
> set your card to the above values.  One of the other drivers in the
> NetBSD kernel (mcd, I believe?) will clobber the card, making even the
> SMC software think that the card is fried.  It doesn't actually do any
> damage, and there are utilities to fix it if you've already found this
> out.  But a SMC card at the correct address for ed2 (base address 0x300,
> really) will not survive a boot on any kernel with support for the other
> driver.

so that explains why my SMC card descided to be on IRQ 3, well that at least
explains things.

>     BTW, why doesn't it work at the ed0 settings?  I ran my SMC 8013WC
> there for over a year, with no problems.  And that was with no available
> IRQ's (every one from 1 through 15 was in use by something), I've never
> had any problems with the upper IRQs being unavailable on my system.

because with my lack of PC knowledge was under the impression that since IRQ 2
was the cascade IRQ that it was unavailable for use.  i was wrong.

set the SMC card to IRQ 2 and things worked great.

everything worked out the way it should, now i have to start over because i 
believe i messed up slightly, but now that everything works the way it should
it should be a matter of just doing it to get things working.

the amazing part is that setting the SMC to IRQ 2 didn't break braindead Linux.
i thought i would be without an ethernet card for linux, thank the gods for
small favors. :)

-brian

-- 
The fundamental difference between Unix and the Macintosh operating system is
that Unix was designed to please programmers, whereas the Mac was designed to 
please users. (Windows, on the other hand, was designed to please accountants, 
but that's another story.)
				--The UNIX-HATERS Handbook

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