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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network card device timeout during NetBSD install
Date: 23 May 1995 03:39:20 GMT
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd.
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In article <f.odonnell.611.2FC0D665@jpl.nasa.gov>,
Frank O'Donnell <f.odonnell@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>When NetBSD booted with the install diskettes, it reported my NE2000+ network
>card as ed2 at 0x300 and IRQ 10.

Your card is definitely at address 0x300, then, but you've either not
got a cable plugged in or it's not at IRQ 10. The probe doesn't detect
the IRQ the card is not, it just assumes that it's whatever IRQ was set
along with that address in the config file.

Change the IRQ on your card to 10 and it should work.

Other configurations you can try, if your card doesn't use IRQ 10, are
addresses 0x250 or 0x280 at IRQ 9 (also known as IRQ 2).

cjs
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