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Date:      Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:48:53 -0600
From:      Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu>
To:        gtk <orb451@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linksys LNEPCI2 Problem
Message-ID:  <248ec724831a.24831a248ec7@marquette.edu>

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The way 'doze works it should pnp the card's new configuration. However 
if you go to look at the properties in the device manager it will say 
that they are "hard configured" and that the OS won't be able to 
automatically adjust settings or some nonsense like. But that's what 
you want anyways.

----- Original Message -----
From: gtk <orb451@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, January 5, 2001 10:09 am
Subject: Re: Linksys LNEPCI2 Problem

> Thanks Jeremy, very much I'll try that tonight... just
> out of curiosity though, I'm running this machine as
> "dual-boot" to go between FreeBSD and Winblows which I
> use for Flash creation, will turning off PnP affect
> the card next time I boot into Winblows?
> 
> If it does, I'll still consider scrapping the
> dual-boot and going with just FreeBSD and get another
> beater machine for Flash, etc.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> orb.
> --- Jeremy Vandenhouten
> <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> wrote:
> > I have one of these in a natd machine. In fact it's
> > a D-link clone. 
> > What you need to do is boot into dos, then run the
> > utility off the disk 
> > that came with the card to turn off PnP and set the
> > IRQ to 10 and the 
> > address to 280. It should work fine then.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: gtk <orb451@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Friday, January 5, 2001 7:26 am
> > Subject: Linksys LNEPCI2 Problem
> > 
> > > Hello all, I've got a question on the Linksys
> > LNEPCI2
> > > NIC card.  I'm running FreeBSD 4.1, my goal in
> > trying
> > > to get this thing working is to use the machine
> > with
> > > DSL.  I've read and configured most of the files I
> > > think I need to for PPPoE to work, it's the NIC
> > that's
> > > giving me problems now.
> > > 
> > > From what I've read, this NIC is an NE2000 clone,
> > so
> > > the driver that I should be using, I believe, is
> > the
> > > "ed".  My dmesg output is saying it's found an
> > NE2000
> > > compatible, NIC at IRQ 10, 0x280, etc etc.  I was
> > > going through the FreeBSD handbook, that kickass
> > one
> > > from Greg Lehey and in it, he lists a whole mess
> > of
> > > compatible NIC's and what drivers correspond to
> > them. 
> > > I was going through each and every one, trying
> > > "ifconfig ax0, fxp0, so on and so forth when all
> > of a
> > > sudden in bright white text I got a message saying
> > > "ifconfig ed0 irq 10, 0x280 returned 2".  I've
> > > recompiled my kernel and it too has the ed0
> > reference
> > > in there.  Do I just need to turn off the "plug n'
> > > pray" on the NIC itself via a floppy DOS utility? 
> > Or
> > > should I be using a different driver altogether?  
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the help, as it is MOST appreciated!
> > > 
> > > orb
> > > 
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