[s-x86] Re: Sol8/intel-final SMC/EtherEZ supported?

["Steven Farmer" <sfarmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

groenveld@xxxxxxx wrote:
> With well-supported, PCI-based 10/100 Mb NICs like the Intel
> Pro100+ selling
> for around $50, I'd say Sun was not unreasonable when it End-of-Life'd
> ISA NICs.

No, it was not unreasonable of them.  I'm still kind of left in the lurch
though.  When I plug Pro100+ into the last open pci slot in my Dell ppro
box, I see a "system board resource conflict" message at boot time and the
boot stops.

I'm at a loss to know what the resource in question might be.  Dell's
dumbed-down BIOS doesn't let you assign IRQs to slots or anything like that.
I doubt it's an IRQ anyway, but rather an I/O port or memory conflict.  I
dunno.

I have two pci scsi cards in this box, a 2940uw with 2 internal wide disks
and a scsi cdrom attached, and a no-name Symbios C810 based card with an
external Exabyte 8500 and a Yamaha cd writer hanging off it.  As an act of
straw-grasping, I'm thinking of yanking the no-name card and putting a
longer ribbon cable on the 2940uw's narrow bus, bringing that out to a an
external connector adapter plate on the back to handle the external devices.
Of course, there's no guarantee that yanking the 2nd scsi card will free up
the resource in question.  And if it did, would the adapter plate and
external cable make the 2940uw's narrow bus unreliable?  This is the sort of
thing that can eat a weekend in a single gulp!

I'd be grateful for any advice short of "buy another pc." ;-)

Steve


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