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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro and built in Ethernet Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 09:24:10 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3256293A.5111@www.play-hookey.com> References: <MPG.cbdc36f4de3ef6c989682@netnews.ntc.nokia.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com 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 3.0 (Win16; U) James Card wrote: > > Has anyone gotten the lance (lnc0) driver to work > at all with the Ethernet controller that comes with > the Compaq Deskpro series? > > I am running 2.2-960801-SNAP and have set the IRQ (11) > and IO (1080) as reported by the -v option on boot-up. > The ethernet address is recognized during boot but > initialization fails when the interface is setup. > Make sure that the *card* is set to the port and IRQ reported. At bootup, the IRQ is not checked; the report indicates only the IRQ the system will expect. I'm using lnc0 successfully on an NE2100 clone mounted in my gateway/server box, so the driver itself works. I am using 2.1R, but I haven't heard of any changes to this driver in the SNAPs. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |