Actually it is sometimes difficult to grok the misteries of a PCI bus.
I remember than adding a 2940UW card on a Sun ultra10 would make the 
openprom unable to see the VGA graphic card.
You might try swapping your Adaptec to another PCI slot, but you need a 
good amount of luck.
Manu


Steve Kirk a écrit :

>On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:24:40AM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
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>>On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:26:03 +0000
>>Steve Kirk <steve@unixnation.net> wrote:
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>>>I'm having a problem with a D-Link DFE500TX rev C-2 card
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>>>However it appears that it isn't recognised under NetBSD/alpha?
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>>What does the kernel report? Is the card detected at all? Even if there
>>is no driver the kernel will print somthing like "foo at bar not
>>configured". Is the card listed when you run "pcictl /dev/pci0 list"?
>>(You may have to iterate through all /dev/pci* devices.)
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>Hi,
>
>I should have put more information in my original email about this
>problem!
>
>The kernel didn't detect the card at all initally, and pcictl was
>showing the card as "Anigma" which seemed odd.
>
>I had tried 2 accton EN1207D cards in the machine, but with either or
>both of these cards in the machine, it would error as SRM tried to
>configure them during the config adapters stage. This would send the
>console into an endless loop.
>
>I've since removed these cards, and also an Adaptec 2940U/UW SCSI
>card that was unused. I then put the D-Link card back in late last night
>and started up the machine...and it 'Just Worked'! It was recognised as
>tulip0 by the SRM consolse and the tlp driver worked.
>
>I really have no idea why, I can't see why removing the Adaptec card
>would make a difference...
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
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