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From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install and NE2000
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.195741.20033@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 19:57:41 GMT
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In article <2mtpis$bmp@clarknet.clark.net>,
Rob Newberry <rob-n@clark.net> wrote:
>I was going to try FreeBSD tonight, since its networking code is
>supposed to be better than linux, my current system.  Unfortunately,
>the installation guide says that for an NE2000 card to be recognized,
>it must be at IRQ 5, I/O 0x280.  Well, I have two NE2000 compatible
>cards (yes, just compatibles, but they work fine with linux) and NEITHER
>of them even has the option of 0x280 -- the lowest they will go
>is 0x300.  My original setup was IRQ 9, and the filesystem-floppy 
>wouldn't even get me to the prompt.  I switched to IRQ 5, and I 
>did finally get a prompt, but the card was not recognized.
>

Try IRQ 5, I/O 0x300.  That's what my NE2000 card is.  It should show up
as device ed1.

Mark