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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!no.such.domain!bill From: bill@qstools.com (Bill Cox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1 install problems Date: 2 Apr 1996 06:00:21 GMT Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4jqfpl$rj@news.scruz.net> References: <4jp5m9$mr9@cronkite.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.159.64 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Keith A. Tomkins (ktomkins@cisco.com) wrote: : I have been running FreeBSD 2.0 for some time now. I have been connecting to : the net via a PPP connection on com 4. I recently decided to upgrade to 2.1. : I have also installed a 3Com 3C509 card to talk to my ISDN router. The problem : I am having is that when I come to the end of my install and try to set : up a network interface, it won't see the 3C509 card. It only gives me the : option of setting up a serial or parallel network connection. I am doing this : install from the Walnut Creek 2.1 CD rom. I am using the default port and IRQ : for the card. However, when I do a "dmesg" the kernel seems to think that the : 3Com card is at a different IRQ than it really is. How does the kernel : figure this out? Is it compiled in or is it probed dynamically? I would also : like to know what the difference is between the ep and le interfaces. : Thanks for the info : Keith -- Here's my dmesg output: 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa ep0: aui/bnc/utp[*BNC*] address 00:a0:24:67:97:20 irq 10 ep0 not found at 0x2000 I had to configure the card with the 3com DOS routine to get it to use IRQ10. The default was IRQ3, which interfered with sio1. And, IRQ10 matched the factory setting for the EISA version of the card. device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq ? vector epintr device ep0 at isa? port 0x2000 net irq ? vector epintr I want a kernel to look both for the 3c509 and its EISA equivalent, since I have one of those boards. ---------------------------------------------------- Bill Cox Software Janitor Raise taxes to cover the deficit? Are you *crazy*?? They'll spend 1.3 times the amount we allocate them, no matter how much it is.