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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PnP network cards? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:29:22 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <31F65D72.12FA@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4t0q6i$ahv@moon.igcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) One Kosher Pickle wrote: > > I have a NE2000 compatible network card. Sounds good so far, but it's > Plug and Play (ugh). It has absolutely NO dip switches. I don't even > know what exact IRQ it is because of this. I get timeout messages when > booting FreeBSD, and I'm stuck.. It is configured for the correct port > address...but I'm not so sure about the IRQ. Can somebody tell me how to > find the IRQ out, without having to believe Windows 95? Thanks for any > ideas.. I think you're going to have to disable plug'n'play completely, and then use software to explicitly set what you want. Otherwise it can self-switch on you, which FBSD won't like. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |