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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!esw From: esw@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric S. Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] Ethernet problem Date: 10 Sep 1992 05:59:25 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <18mo7tINN71h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu I'm trying to install 386 BSD via the internet, only Tiny BSD 386 won't recognize my ethernet card on bootup. The card is a Cabletron configured to IRQ9, port 0x280. So I guess my basic questions are, a) Does anyone know if this card will even work? (I have no idea if Cabletron is a "clone" of a supported card or not.) b) What criteria does 386 BSD use to determine if a card is present? Failing meeting this criteria, is there anyway to "fool" BSD into putting the driver on anyway? The reason I ask this is because even booting on DOS, the packet driver complains about a possible IRQ conflict (a game port, now disabled) and babbles about an 8-bit bus, which it never did on any other IRQ. I don't know if any of these warnings might relate to BSD not recognizing the card. Thanks in advance, Eric Wallace wallace@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu esw@po.cwru.edu