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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!unixhub!cdsun2.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!tomdean From: tomdean@cdsun2.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Thomas Dean) Subject: TI TravelMate Message-ID: <CoxHJB.13B@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: BSD, TI, NE2000 Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: tomdean@cdsun2.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Thomas Dean) Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 17:21:10 GMT Lines: 32 I have installed FreeBSD on a TI Travelmate notebook. The installation was not easy. There is a problem with the network adapter I/O address. The notebook is a 486DX50, 20mb RAM, 200mb disk. I used the CDRom from Walnut Creek as a source, and installed FreeBSD over the network. The CDRom was mounted in a Windows NT system. The installation from the 3-floppies went smoothly. The kernel could not find the network adapter. After checking, I noticed that the adapter I/O address was set to 0x320. The kernel was checking 0x280 and 0x300 for ed0. I set the adapter to 0x300, and rebooted. The notebook hung, before it attempted to access the hard drive. After an hour in the TI documentation, and searching for a DOS utility, I ended up disabling the mouse. It seems that the network adapter address range is 0x300, 320, 340, or 0x360, with 0x300 and 0x360 conflicting with the PS/2 mouse port and the printer port, respecitvely. This is very confusing, since I am using the Quickport mouse! However, after disabling the mouse, the machine would boot and recognize the network adapter at0x 300. It would NOT soft boot - I had to cycle power every time I booted the machine. I used FTP to transfer the binary files from the Windows NT system. Another bummer - the files came across with all upper case names. So, I extracted the files by hand, only one command. See extract.sh! After this, the system booted and seems ok. Question: How do I change the address of ed0? The kernel currently looks at 0x280 and 0x300. I want it to look at 0x320, (also?)