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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!heron.Stanford.EDU!yue From: yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! NetBSD doesn't recognize my ethernet card! Date: 11 Feb 1996 20:35:29 GMT Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department, CA USA Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4fljuh$s5s@Radon.Stanford.EDU> References: <4fj0no$dac@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fkjvp$c7f@carol.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: heron.stanford.edu In article <4fkjvp$c7f@carol.fwi.uva.nl>, Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) writes: >>I bought a new NE2000 compatible ISA ethernet card to run NetBSD 1.1. >>NetBSD itself was installed fine, but it just doesn't recognize the >>ethernet card. According to the installation note, if a NE2000 >>compatible card (ed0) is configured to use I/O address 0x280, IRQ 2 >>and memory address 0xd000, it'll be recognized, but 0x280 isn't one of >>the available I/O addresses on my card (only 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, and >>0x360), so how do I ask NetBSD to use the default 0x300 on my card? > >The default installation kernels recognize your family of ethernet cards >at the following addresses: > >ed0 at isa? port 0x280 iomem 0xd0000 irq 9 # WD/SMC, 3C503, and NE[12]000 >ed1 at isa? port 0x250 iomem 0xd8000 irq 9 # ethernet cards >ed2 at isa? port 0x300 iomem 0xcc000 irq 10 > >So it looks like picking the values in the last line should work for you. No, it won't do. IRQ 10 isn't available on my ethernet card. IRQ 2 (same as IRQ9), IRQ 3, and IRQ 5 are. Doesn't NetBSD look into a file to get these parameters when it boots? Which file is this? Thanks. Ken