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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.erinet.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!multiverse!rhh From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NE2100 compatible configuration Date: 27 Oct 1995 17:13:58 GMT Organization: Multiverse Lines: 24 Message-ID: <46r40m$j70@sauron.multiverse.com> References: <46hu25$kes@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <46r3e6$j39@sauron.multiverse.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.54.52.5 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) >>I am very new to the UNIX world and have absolutely no idea of how to get >>my NE2100 compatible ethnet card to work properly under FreeBSD. >The Lance driver (lnc) in FreeBSD 2.0.5 works fine with my 2100 card (Allied >Telesyn AT1500BT). Reread the first part of your message and realized this might not be much help. Config your card using jumpers or the DOS setup utility it came with and write down the port base address (e.g. 300Hex), IRQ, and DMA channels you assign it. Then (assuming you're running FreeBSD >= ver 2.0.5), enter -c at the FreeBSD boot prompt and enter these parameters for the lnc0 device. Then exit the configuration utility and boot FreeBSD. This should get FreeBSD's Lance driver to recognize your card -- look at the boot messages to make sure. Past this, ifconfig your lnc0 interface, update your routing table using route commands (if necessary), and (unless I left something out) you should be ready to use your card. Note that I had trouble using the Lance driver in 2.0. 2.0.5's works fine though. Randall Hopper rhh@ct.picker.com