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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI ethernet card
Date: 16 Jun 1996 00:07:01 GMT
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leachbj@leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au (Bernard James Leach) wrote:
> I have a PCI ethernet card and was wondering if I could get
> FreeBSD support for it. The card is a NE2000 compatible card
> but since the pci intialisation is at the end of a kernel boot
> and ne2000 detection is at the start it doesnt get recognised.
Stefan Esser tweaked the driver in FreeBSD-current to be PCI aware.
Meanwhile...
> Ander Linux the opposite occurs and the card works fine /proc/pci:
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 5.
> I/O at 0xff80.
^^^^^^
....using this IO address should do the trick. You can enter it by
booting with -c, but *don't* use the visual config. Use the plain
text version, and type ``port ed0 0xff80'', followed by ``irq ed0 5''.
--
cheers, J"org
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