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From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.0 10/5 PCI install problems
Date: 27 Oct 1995 14:21:15 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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Message-ID: <46qpsr$co8@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
References: <DH0EKC.204@tigger.jvnc.net> <46orob$e4n@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us>
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To: "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us>

In article <46orob$e4n@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us>, cfr@dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) writes:
|> 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?

That SMC PCI Ethernet card uses a DEC 21x4x chips.
And "de0" is the correct driver.

The "ed0" driver is for WD8003 (and newer :) cards.

Regards, STefan
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