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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI Ethernet cards
Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:30:47 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> wrote:

> Actually, it is an IBM card but the chipset is
> of the PCNet32 family (yes, lance compatible). I
> was originally under the impression that the lnc 
> driver would handle this, but to no avail. Although 

I've been successfully using the Lance (lnc) driver with PCnet PCI
chips.  Anyway, this driver does not (yet) support PCI autoconfig, so
you have to boot with -v in order to see the PCI IO port address, and
use this one after a new boot with -c.  (Caution: you cannot enter
such a high port address using the visual config screen, you have to
use the classic command-line configuration utility.)

The tricky thing is that your PCI configuration data might scroll too
far off the screen so you cannot see it, not even with syscons'
scrollback feature.  If you get the system multi-user, you can have a
look into /var/log/messages however.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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