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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA84 ; Thu, 28 Jan 93 07:00:22 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Subject: Re: [386BSD] BUG in 0.1/0.2: How to configure IRQ on NE1000 boards? Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:28:38 GMT Message-ID: <C1HIJr.51@chinet.chi.il.us> References: <1k1oafINNrl4@smurf.sti.com> Lines: 24 In article <1k1oafINNrl4@smurf.sti.com> dgreen@sti.com (Dan R. Greening) writes: >I have 386BSD 0.1 running on my little 386, my initial kernel is from >dist.fs-patchkit-0.2, though dist.fs works the same way. Unfortunately >I cannot get it to run correctly on the NE1000 or NE2000 boards that >The IRQ number is crazy because ne1000 and ne2000 boards from Novell CANNOT >be set to IRQ 9. The default is IRQ 3, which is what we leave it at in >every 386 we have (and we have tons). >Could someone actually fix this in the next release so at least the IRQ >number used is feasible? (Really you *ought* to put the NEx000 at IRQ 3 >address 0x300, where it is set at the factory.) As far as I'm concerned, >this is a bug (and a very annoying one, at that, since you can't use the >network to download the rest of your distribution). No it is not. I have ne2000's set for int 2 ( you DO know that int2 and int9 are the same thing?). int3 is a terrible int as it is normally used for com2, and port 300 is generaly used for tape drives. Novell was silly to use those as defaults. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us