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From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Problems with WD8003W & NetBSD 1.0
Date: 16 Nov 1994 18:16:36 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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In article <CzDEBA.46K@liverpool.ac.uk>, dtyson@liverpool.ac.uk (Dave Tyson) writes:
|> Just tried to install NetBSD 1.0 on my 486DX system 16 Meg, IDE disk, Western
|> Digital 8003W ethernet card.  NetBSD 0.9 ran fine on this system and gave no 
|> networking problems. 
|> 
|> The problem appears to be the autoconfigure probe routines are not picking
|> up the config of the WD8003W correctly. The device is configured as IRQ 2
|> base address 0x280 and memory 0xd0000, however NetBSD reports the IRQ as 9
|> and the interface as BNC rather than UTP. [I seem to remember reading 
|> somewhere IRQ 9 being equivalent to IRQ 2 on some systems]

I think you should try to configure your card at irq 9. The generic kernel
is configured whith this:

device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 9 iomem 0xd0000
device ed1 at isa? port 0x250 irq 9 iomem 0xd8000
device ed2 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10 iomem 0xcc000

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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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