Two SMC EtherPower 8432T PCI cards

Bret Robinson (bar@city.abby.bc.ca)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:22:40 -0800

I have been able to get two SMC 8432T cards working in my p100 machine but
am getting a strange message upon boot (see dmesg output below) about
"region already allocated" with both addresses referencing the second
ethernet card. Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it.
Everything seems to be working fine (except for a couple of system lock
ups with no indication as to why - maybe this is causing the lock ups?).
Any help would be appreciated. BTW, I am using the de4x5 driver as
suggested in an earlier posting. My PC is a P100 ASUS motherboard,
adaptec aha-2940, 32Mb RAM.

-------------- partial dmesg output --------------

Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Memory: 31564k/32768k available (560k kernel code, 384k reserved, 260k data)
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.030 Snap #1 for Linux 1.3.4
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.07 BETA for Linux NET3.030.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.030 (Snapshot #1)
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: eth0: UNKNOWN at e400 (PCI bus 0, device 9), h/w address 00:00:c0:4b:0f:c8,
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: and requires IRQ10 (not probed).
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: de4x5.c:v0.32 6/26/95 davies@wanton.lkg.dec.com
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: eth1: UNKNOWN at e000 (PCI bus 0, device 10), h/w address 00:00:c0:4a:0f:c8,
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: and requires IRQ11 (not probed).
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: de4x5.c:v0.32 6/26/95 davies@wanton.lkg.dec.com
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: eth1: region already allocated at 0xe400.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: eth1: region already allocated at 0xe000.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Linux version 1.3.20 (root@fireball) (gcc version 2.7.0) #6 Fri Mar 15 17:01:13 PST 1996
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: Partition check:
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: eth0: Searching for media... media is TP.
Mar 22 08:46:59 cerberus kernel: eth1: Searching for media... media is TP.

----------- end of dmesg output ----------------

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