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From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] Possible problem with if_ed driver
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
References: <2715f6$72v@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <CDAt3K.AI@dragon.dsh.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 15:16:30 GMT
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In article <2715f6$72v@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu> mju@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu (Marc Unangst) writes:
=>I'm using NetBSD 0.9 with an SMC Elite 16T and the ed0 driver.
=>The "device ed0" line reads as follows:
=>
=>device ed0 at isa? port 0x240 net irq 10 iomem 0xcc000 vector edintr
=>
=>When my machine boots, the if_ed driver registers like this:
=>
=>Sep 12 19:49:04 mudos /netbsd: ed0 at 0x240-0x25f irq 10 maddr 0xcc000-0xcdfff on isa
=>Sep 12 19:49:04 mudos /netbsd: ed0: address 00:00:c0:93:78:5a, type unknown (8bit) 
=>
=>The second line is the one I'm concerned about; it appears as if
=>the driver isn't correctly recognizing the card type, and so is only
=>using 8K of RAM and running the card in 8-bit mode.  The card
=>appears to work fine, but what's going on here?
=>
   I get the same thing with that card. 386BSD + pk0.2.0 still thinks
it's a Starnet card, but it also works.

                                   Gary D. Duzan
                                   Network Administrator
                                   Delaware State Hospital