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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!hammer.uoregon.edu!xfer.kren.nm.kr!mr.net!news.idt.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!news.u.washington.edu!gabrielx From: gabrielx@u.washington.edu (Gabriel M. Deal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Trouble recognizing 3c503 card? Date: 21 Mar 1997 18:15:41 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5guj8d$ht@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <5gso2g$bsn@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <5gu9m9$bm9@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: goodall.u.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: gabrielx Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37537 Thanks for your reply and to many others who have replied via email. Turns out it was very simple and now everything is working great. I just needed to change the jumper for the shared memory address on my network card to agree with my kernel. gabriel In article <5gu9m9$bm9@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote: >[Posted and mailed] > >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: [...] >> 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 !