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From: rhughes2@lan.mcl.bdm.com (Ralph Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c503 anyone?
Date: 28 Sep 1995 12:29:33 GMT
Organization: BDM Technologies
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In article <ethomson.812153568@beatle.wri.com>, ethomson@wri.com says...
>
>Howdy -- does anyone have a 3c503 working under FreeBSD?  Mine's at a standard
>irq and address, the kernel (-c) says it's looking for it at this address,
>I've disabled all other conflicting devices and devices I don't have; yet
>probe ed0 still says it doesn't exist.  Any secrets to getting this work?
>(And I got the 503 second-hand, so I don't have a manual or anything --
>but I know it works -- Linux loves it...)
>
>Ed

A friend of mine had a similar problem with a 3Com compatible card (or maybe 
it was NE2000 ?? :-)  Anyway, FreeBSD mapped it to *ed1* instead of ed0.
A little mod to the ifconfig call fixed it.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
-- 
Ralph P. Hughes         (v) (334) 213-7816
BDM Technologies        rhughes2@bdm.com
Montgomery, AL