On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Frank Z�ndorff wrote:
> today I checked the new z2-dp8390.mni with my x-surf. With the button "Find
> boards" I can see the card and with "MNI parameters" I can see the
> mac-address, but after going online nothing happens. The Miami-Window is
> freezed. A ping on localhost is okay. A ping on the ip-number I choosed for
> my amiga returns with -1. The same happens with a ping to another computer
> in my lan.
Because you mention the MAC address I take it you did a "Query device",
but after doing this did you click "OK" to use the values?
The -1 return is simply the result of the interface not being online.
It's just the highly informative and obvious way of saying that it doesn't
have a route to the target address. :-) If the interface were configured
not to require any actual network traffic to go online (i.e., no DHCP, no
verification, etc.), then it *might* "successfully" go online, but then
the actual communication would fail.
> The network-configuration is okay because with Sana & x-surf.device
> everything runs fine. After changing to mni I restarted my computer to
> remove x-surf.device from memory.
Actually, just an "avail flush" is sufficient unless the driver's expunge
code is broken. If the driver is *really* written correctly it shouldn't
even need the expunge, as long as it's not open.
With the AriadneII, any time the driver is loaded in memory it "owns" all
AriadneII cards in the system. This means that:
1) The driver must be expunged via "Avail flush" or equivalent (when not
in use) before the MNI driver can be used.
2) With multiple AriadneII cards, it's not possible to use the SANA-II
driver for some and the MNI driver for others.
Failure to observe the above restrictions variously results in error
requesters, hangs, crashes, etc., since neither the SANA-II nor MNI
drivers have any conflict detection.
Perhaps someone with multiple X-Surf cards could try similar tests of its
driver's behavior.
Fred Wright
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