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From: cfr@dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.0 10/5 PCI install problems
Date: 26 Oct 1995 15:40:43 -0500
Organization: Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa (USA)
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John Lucas <jlucas@uvi.edu> wrote:
:I am having several problems installing the Oct 5th SNAPshot 
:version 2.1.0 on my system.

[config]
:Ethernet - SMC Etherpower 10Mb/sec (SMC8432T) in PCI slot 3

:Problem number two:
:
:After installing FreeBSD from the DOS partition and generating
:a kernal with de0 support, I get the following error:
:
:	de0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4)
:
:The probe detects a:
:
:Digital DC21041 Ethernet rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:20

I've got a 133 MHz Gateway with the SMC PCI Ethernet card that is also
recognized as de0. Shouldn't this be recognized as ed0?

-Randy

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Charles F. Randall              E-mail: crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us
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