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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!stl!robobar!ibmpcug!adrian From: adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: setting up 3c503 Message-ID: <Bu1t2K.E2u@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 4 Sep 92 09:59:08 GMT References: <0edeipG00WBK47QEVF@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 22 In article <0edeipG00WBK47QEVF@andrew.cmu.edu> aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore) writes: >I need some help getting my 3c503 card to work with 386bsd. bsd finds >it on bootup (lists the ec0 device driver). However, I think that the >kernel is configured to use the BNC port instead of the AUI port. I got >mail from someone telling me to make the minor number of the device >(/dev/ec0 i assume) less then 127, but I don't know the major number. I >have done a bit of pokeing around in the kernel sources, but haven't >found anything (device.i386 doesn't list it). This does not bode well for me in the future. The file you would want to look at I assume is /sys/sys.i386/isa/if_ec.[ch] (I think - I havent got the src dist unpacked at this precise moment) - somewhere in there, there will be the major and minor number of the device. PS - If you get it going, please let me know what you did. Adrian -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Hall Connect Systems Manager adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group Tel: +44 81 863 1191 Harrow, London, UK