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From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMC PCI Ethernet EtherPower supported on 2.0.5?
Date: 4 Aug 1995 23:50:31 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <3vsmof$nnn@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes:
|>In article <3vs9m6$spk@paperboy.ids.net>,  <green@ids.net> wrote:
|>>Say - I went to try to install FBSD 2.0.5 on my Pentium machine with an
|>>SMC PCI "EtherPower" ethernet card and had problems getting it to recognize
|>>the card.
|>
|>    Did you set the IRQ and port address on the card to match where
|>the kernel thinks they should be?  Or alternatively, boot with "-c" at
|>the boot prompt and change the values in the kernel.

This is PCI and (in this case) it really is plug and play.  The driver
and O/S get everything from the BIOS settings.  In fact, PCI devices
aren't even listed by "boot -c".
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