Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU!PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be From: PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Andr'e PIRARD) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: 3c523 packet drivers -- what's the trick? Message-ID: <9010222049.AA05959@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 22 Oct 90 08:41:31 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 On Sun, 21 Oct 90 08:11:55 GMT said: >karl@naitc.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) writes: >>We're trying to get a few PS/2s running with the packet drivers, and are >>having no luck at all. All we get is a "Timed out initializing board" >>message...... and no function! > >I had the same problem last year. I stumbled onto a work-around that >you probably won't like. :-) I found that if an old beta version of >the driver was loaded, the machine warm booted and then the new version >loaded, everything worked OK. Great, eh? Indeed 3c523_5 looks to have been included in release 7 for that purpose. But one doesn't need to warm boot. TERMIN will do the trick. >One must assume that some memory location is getting twiddled by one >or the other but I never had time to run this one down. If you find >out what it takes to make the new ones work, I'd appreciate hearing. >Since terminal emulation is about all a PS/2 is good for, I expect >to run into a couple more someday. I have traced the problem some day to occur during board RAM tests. I have suggested that the cause is that the CPU can't accessed that RAM until the chip is initialized, what's apparently done after RAM test. Unfortunately, I haven't got a 523 any more. Will someone who has one give Russ a help? Andr'e PIRARD SEGI, Univ. de Li`ege B26 - Sart Tilman B-4000 Li`ege 1 (Belgium) pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be or PIRARD@BLIULG11 on EARN/BITNET