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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with ethernet cards......(sound familiar?:) Date: 11 May 1996 12:23:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4n20ru$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3193736E.576F@cdngateaway.pe.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Youth Internship Program <yip@cdngateaway.pe.ca> wrote: > I am having one problem tho, I have 2 > ethernet cards, an Intel EthernetExpress pro 10 and a D-link 220. In the > supported list, the intel card comes up as supported, however when i boot > from the latest snap floppy, it can't find it. The EtherExpress16 is supported by the `ix' driver. The EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI is supported by the `fxp' driver. > With the d-link card, it isn't supported in > the list, however i set the card up for nec2000 emulation. When booting > up from the stable floppy, it recognizes it as ed1, however when any > network attempts are made, the card times out. Likely an interrupt problem. You mentioned a soundblapper, note that many sound cards implicitly use IRQ7. The best interrupt (in the low range) for an Ethernet card is normally 5. (1 is the internal clock, 2(9) is used by EGA and some VGAs, 3 and 4 are serial ports, 5 is the second printer, but mostly unused for this purpose, 6 is the floppy, 7 is the first printer.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)