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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble recognizing 3c503 card?
Date: 21 Mar 1997 15:32:25 GMT
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To: gabrielx@u.washington.edu (Gabriel M. Deal)
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In article <5gso2g$bsn@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
gabrielx@u.washington.edu (Gabriel M. Deal) writes:
> Yesterday was my first experience with the *BSDs, so hopefully I'm
> missing something obvious and this will be a simple one.
>
> I've installed FreeBSD 3.0 (same thing happens in OpenBSD 2.0) on
> my Pentium 133 with an old 3Com 3c503 Etherlink II card. As far as I
> can tell FreeBSD can't find that card. On bootup it will say
> something like "Can't locate ed0 at 0x280" (is ed0 correct?), and an
> "ifconfig -a" will only come up with this:
>
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
> The ed0 line in my kernel config file looks like this:
>
> device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
>
> 0x280 is how the jumper is set on the card and works with Linux.
> I've tried setting the IRQ to 2, 3, 4, and 5 and then recompiling and
> reinstalling the kernel (the ed(4) man page says those are the valid
> IRQ settings), but no luck.
>
> I'm not even sure if I'm on the right track here and I would really
> appreciate any help with this, I've run out of ideas to try.
>
>
> If you reply to this posting, it would be nice if you could email
> me your reply also since I may be going out of town in a few days and
> don't want to miss your help.
>
> thank you,
> gabriel
You're right, the ed driver is supposed to support the 3c503 (from
/sys/i386/conf/LINT).
The IRQ isn't fixed at 2,3,4 or 5. Try other values - 10 & 11 are
common (certainly for ne2000s and 8003s).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !