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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 3Com 3c503 problems installing NetBSD 0.9 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 21:20:24 -0400 Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <IgT0zMy00WBME_b4kO@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <CCC5B4.5DD@cc.swarthmore.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.questions: 25-Aug-93 3Com 3c503 problems install.. by Phil Brandenberger@saffr > I am having problems installing NetBSD 0.9 on a Gateway 2000 386/25 with > a 3Com 3c503 "Etherlink II" 10BaseT ethernet card. I first tried the > upgrade, which went smoothly, except that the kernels (both kernel disks) > didn't recognize my ethernet card and list it in the initial devices. > > This is strange since NetBSD 0.8 had no problems-- it happily declared it > an ec0. I gather that under 0.9 it would be ed0. In 0.9 they setup the ed0 driver to used shared memory at a different location then the ec0 driver was setup for (it used to be at 0xd8000 and is now at 0xd0000). This wouldn't be a problem, but the 3c503 doesn't support having shared memory at 0xd0000, so you need to recompile the kernel. Maybe they should post another kernel copy disk that has ec0 support or has ed0 at 0x0d8000. If there is a high demand and the netbsd folks don't want to do it I could put a kernel on my ftp site (phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu). alex