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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] WD8003E card doesn't work Date: 9 Dec 1992 14:40:16 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1g50ggINNnqi@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1992Dec8.144009@cs.utwente.nl> <ByysM0.3M9@chinet.chi.il.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu Keywords: ethernet, 386BSD, WD8003E In article <ByysM0.3M9@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > > Either change the interrupt in your SYSTEMNAME file in > /usr/src/sys.*/i386/conf to something other than 2, or remove the > other ethernet card definitions in the same file. Recompile the > kernel, and all works. Same thing applies to the ne2000 driver. Unfortunately for most people, that presents a chicken-and-egg problem. How does one recompile the kernel if he/she needs the ethernet card to download the sources? I ended up running a Z-modem transfer overnight, but this is severely suboptimal. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!