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From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 on Intel EtherExpress
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:54:57 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 18-Oct-95 2.0.5 on
Intel EtherExpress L. Scott Emmons@center.u (1042)
> Has anyone been successful at getting FreeBSD 2.0.5 up on an Intel
> EtherExpress (EXP16) card? I believe I have everything configured
> properly, but FreeBSD doesn't seem to like the card. It works fine
> with DOG/windoze. I got FreeBSD to work just fine on a 3c503 with a
> similar setup but am having trouble with the Intel card.
> FreeBSD finds the card when it probes, but that's about as far as it
> goes.
We never got FreeBSD to handle our Intel Etherexpress cards. In the end
we switched the routing unit to BSDI BSD/OS 2.0.1, and it picked up the
card as it was configured, and everything now works fine. This leads me
to suspect that either the etherexpress driver in FreeBSD is buggy or
dated. We went through the normal procedures of pulling other cards,
clearing out the probes that occured on any similar settings, etc, and
eventually gave up.
This was the case under both a 386/40 motherboard we originally routed
with, and the newer 486 dx2/50 we used. There was some suggestion that
users should watch for the Intel Etherexpress Pro vs the old intel
etherexpress. You might check which you have..
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org