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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!uunet!tinman2!tdphette From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1 does not recognize SMC Elite32C Ultra EISA ethernet Date: 10 Jun 1994 15:57:22 GMT Organization: Allen-Bradley Co. Lines: 45 Message-ID: <2ta2h2INN9an@scarecrow.mke.ab.com> References: <ATH.94Jun6180428@grapenuts.bellcore.com> <2t3eckINN36n@scarecrow.mke.ab.com> <CEB.94Jun8125347@netcom5.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tinman.mke.ab.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ch. Buckley (ceb@netcom5.netcom.com) wrote: > > Well, in Heybey's case, it's a network card designed for the EISA bus, > and you have to run the EISA configure program to set thigns up. > Probably he's missing the (right) special little file that goes with > the card he's got. Manufacturer's BBS's are handy at times like > these. Though it is an ISA card, the 3C509 does have a special EISA mode it will run in, and does come with an EISA CFG file. That was the source of all the trouble. I would load the supplied CFG file, the EISA config program would then set the card into EISA mode (i.e the base address becomes a function of the slot number), and it would no longer work with FreeBSD. > But in your case, (it appears) you're using an ISA card in an EISA > board, which is perfectly ok, but you don't configure it. Some > configuration programs call this configuring the slot as "non EISA". > It should work anyway, though I ran into so many loser EISA > motherboards I now use VESA. Life's too short to muck around with > goofy hardware. The trick was to keep the card in ISA mode and tell EISA config that it is a generic ISA card with no CFG file. Everything went smoothly after I did that, my two FreeBSD systems are now happily talking to each other. My thanks to the several people who sent me email explaining the intricacies of the ISA and EISA bus. > Gee, you can get a job as a "network systems analyst" without knowing > such things? Where do I sign up? ;'} Amazing what a creatively written resume can get you, aint it? ;-) In my defense, I've spent the last several years mucking around with Sun workstations; my PC knowledge seems to be somewhat outdated. My thanks to all the people who helped me solve this. -- Thad Phetteplace Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co. Phone: (414)382-4461 Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer. I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!