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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Problems with 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Aug24.200050.4728@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Date: 24 Aug 92 20:00:50 GMT
References: <1992Aug17.054335.12028@gbrmpa.gov.au> <michaelv.714609038@test.cc.iastate.edu>
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>In <1992Aug17.054335.12028@gbrmpa.gov.au> wayne@gbrmpa.gov.au (Wayne Amisano) writes:
>
>> We have successfully installed 386BSD on a 486DX/8/100, OPTI
>>chipset and we are having trouble configuring the WD 8003E card.
>
>>Bootup reports :- we0 ethernet address <blah> at 0x280 irq9 on isa
>
>>We've set the card for IRQ 2, 280 and D800.
> ^^^^
>
>This address defaults to D000 in the standard kernel. You'll have to
>use that address unless you rebuild your kernel with a different
>address.
>
Caution!! You have to write D8000 in the kernel config file.
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--Chris
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