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From: mglaris@pic.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Etherlink II C503 Controller?
Date: 20 Jun 1995 19:34:05 GMT
Organization: Summit Research, Inc.
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In <3rsjvf$jjf@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
><mglaris@pic.net> wrote:
>
>>I decided to buy a cheap Etherlink II C503 card.  I have since installed
>>to card and reinstalled FreeBSD.  Unix still does not see the card.
>
>Please read the hardware guide, and make sure all the hardware
>settings of the card do match the kernel, or boot with `-c' to make
>the kernel match your hardware.  The appropriate device is `ed0' or
>`ed1'.

This one I managed to figure out.  As it turns out, the C503 is too slow
to be used with a Pentium 90 system.  When I tried using a c509, everthing
worked just fine.  I have subsequently figured out how to reconfigure the
kernel to select only those devices needed.  

Things were looking up until I had a power failure....

Thanks for the input.

Mike Laris
mglaris@pic.net