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From: umar@cybercom.net (Rob Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Ethernet cards and NetBSD 1.1
Date: 20 Jan 1996 01:25:29 GMT
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Presently the only Ethernet card I can get NetBSD to acknowledge is an 
old WD8003E 8-bit card.  More recent 16-bit SMC cards don't work; NetBSD 
claims they are jumpered for IRQ9 when in fact they are jumpered for 
IRQ10, which is what the kernel seems to want.

The installation notes say NetBSD 1.1 supports the Intel EtherExpress 16 
card, but my system won't recognize one.

So right now I'm stuck with the 8-bit card as my only Ethernet option.  
I'm thinking I'll use it for now, then when my network ISDN connection to 
the Internet gets installed I'll FTP the source files and try to build a 
new kernel with ed2 configured for IRQ9, and try the 16-bit SMC card 
again.

Does anyone have any better suggestions?


Rob Landry
umar@cybercom.net