----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark St.George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 9:15 PM Subject: GNAT Box Update
> Greetings Everyone, > > My curiosity about the external NIC (SMC) time out problems I have been having > led me to try a few things. > > First, I tried changing the duties for each NIC in the GNAT Box > configuration (I made the > SMC the protected NIC, and the DEC the external NIC). The SMC still timed out > and I noticed right away that I couldn't ping the SMC, or access it via the web > browser from a computer on the protected network (I was able perform the > aforementioned tasks when the NIC were installed in the other order). Hmmmm, OK. Yes this definitely sounds like problem I had. > I figured that it must be a resource conflict so I changed the IRQ, I/O, DMA > for > the SMC NIC (using the table in the GNAT Box user manual) and rebooted It actually isn't a resource conflict I think. I suppose those nonEPROMed SMC's need some kind of "booting up" > Neither of the SMC NICs time out and I am now able to access the "protected" > SMC NIC via the web browser interface. I still can't successfully ping the > external > router but the external NIC's Rx and TX lights seem to blink in unison with the > cable modem's lights during the pinging process. (What do you guys think? > Is that a sign of a properly working external NIC?) Those old SMC:s without ROM or EPROM go to same address (no autoconfiguration here), so they both sit in same io address and IRQ and work in unison. Thats a bad thing and definitely they dont work properly. > Do you guys think I should purchase a cross-over cable and do my ping test, or > should I just go out and purchase a NE2000 NIC and use it with my DEC 204? > Maybe I don't really have a hardware problem anymore and I'm wasting my time? > Any other comments? If in mood of changing cards I'd go for 3com's Etherlink III:s. Actually I'm in the process of making a very simple linux boot/root disk that sets the SMC elite ultra up in order to boot the machine in gnatbox mode. -Reko
