Hi,
I just put an ethernet SN-DE500-BA (ie a tulip 10/100mbs) into an
AlphaStation 500/400 and everything worked fine, the card was recognised at
the console command level as ewb0, and uerf indicated that the device was
detected during boot. I was able to configure the new card and swap the
cable over from the 10mbs standard card to the 10/100mbs card.
However when I added the same model card to an AlphaStation 500/333, I had
no joy. The card was recognised at the console command level as ewb0, I was
able to set the ewb0_mode to auto-negotiate, but uerf indicated that the
device was not detected during boot. This was confirmed by the fact that I
had not seen any tu1 messages during boot. The operating system on both the
500/400 and the 500/333 is v4.0E, and the firmware is also the same (the
firmware that came with v4.0F).
The 500/333 has 4 pci slots on a riser (similar to the 500/400), the first
is a 64 bit slot and the rest are 32 bit slots. The original configuration
had the video in the 1st slot (64 bit slot) and a scsi in the 4th slot
(unlike the 500/400 where the scsi is in the 2nd slot). I tried the ethernet
card in both the 2nd and 3rd slots to no avail.
If anyone knows the definitive answer as to whether the ethernet card should
or should not work I'd be interested.
Dennis
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Dennis Macdonell
email: mcdonell_at_auslig.gov.au
ph: 61 2 6201 4326
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Received on Fri Dec 10 1999 - 05:35:49 NZDT