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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 3c503 AUI support?
Message-ID: <1992Aug27.010018.6852@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Aug26.051010.18443@ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 01:00:18 GMT
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In article <1992Aug26.051010.18443@ctr.columbia.edu> vikki@e40-008-9.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
>Hi!
>
> Is anyone using a 3c503 ethernet adapter with the AUI port rather than
>the coax connector? Our whole net is 10BT. I know that when using a 3c503
>card in a Novell Netware server you have to explicitly tell the o/s to use the
>AUI port if that's your configuration. Since I seem to be getting notthing but
>silence from my 3c503 and 386BSD on our 10BT LAN, I figure that the kernel is
>assuming the connection to the LAN is via the coax port. Anyone have any tips?
>
Minor device number. Remknod the ethernet device. From the sources
(at /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/isa/if_ec.c):
* Since I couldn't really think of any non-creative way (other than
* using a #define) of configuring the board to use the onboard xceiver,
* I kludged the isa_device->unit to contain this information. Simply
* put, if bit-7 of isa_device->unit is set (>127) then the driver
* configures that unit to onboard-xceiver (BNC) and if <128 it assumes
* AUI. ec_attach informs the user of this on bootup. Also, ec_probe
* repairs this bit after obtaining it's information since I didn't know
* what else within the depths of the kernel would freak out if I left it.
re mknod it with bit 7 off.
Use the source, luke.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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