From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 14:41:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13373 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sdcc10.ucsd.edu (sdcc10.ucsd.edu [132.239.50.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13363 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crouilla@ucsd.edu) Received: from localhost (crouilla@localhost) by sdcc10.ucsd.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA18994; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:40:32 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: sdcc10.ucsd.edu: crouilla owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:40:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Rouillard Reply-To: chuck@ucsd.edu To: Eddie Irvine cc: "Oke M. Ramdan" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 compatible PCI network card unsupported ? In-Reply-To: <364CAD0B.EDA05536@tpgi.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > Chuck Rouillard wrote: > > > > [chop] > > > This is wierd. I have several NE2000 compatible cards on my > > > PCI bus and they work fine (ed driver). But I also have a NE2000 > > > card on the ISA bus as well. > > > > > > > Oke M. Ramdan wrote: > > > > > > > > To Whom It May Concern, > > > > > > > > I have a NE2000 compatible PCI 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter on my > > > > maschine, but it doesn't work. > > > > During boot appears: > > > > > > > > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > > > > ... > > > > pci0:10: vendor=0x10ec, device=0x8139, class=network (ethernet) int > > > > a irq 10 [no driver assigned] > > > > ... > > > > > > > > Probing for devices on the ISA bus: > > > > ... > > > > ed0 not found at 0xffffffff > > > > fe0 not found at 0x300 > > > > ... > > > > > > > > My FreeBSD version is 2.2.7-RELEASE > > > > Does FreeBSD not support NE2000 compatible PCI network adapter ? > > > > > > > > Thank you for your attention to this matter. > > > > > > > > Oke M. Ramdan > > > > ramdan@iname.com > > > > In either case(PCI/ISA), its the 'ed' driver. In my experience, the > > NE2000 driver uses ed0 and ed1 for ISA(exclusively?) and ed2 and ed3 > > for PCI(exclusively?). To get my 2.2.5 boxen up with 2 PCI variants, > > I needed to add two lies for ed0 *and* ed1 *without* any options set > > for either. The driver then lookes for PCI cards and finds them. > > Well, I've just got NE2000 10Mbit cards: > > ed0 ISA > ed1 PCI > ed2 PCI > > And only the ed0 device in the kernel config file. > > I'd be interested to know if anyone has got a NE2000 10/100Mbit PCI card > to work correctly in the 100Mbit mode, and what the speeds are like... > > Eddie. 1. In my experience, the 3 card config will work *if* you put in a 'dummy' definition for ed1. For example, device ed0 /* all *your* ISA config stuff here */ device ed1 /* Nothing here! Dummy device! */ I haven't mixed ISA/PCI NE2000 cards on BSD before, but this appears correct from similar experience. The two PCI cards *should* get autoprobed as ed2 and ed3. 2. As someone pointed out earlier, there was no such NE2000 with 100Mbit capabilities. The original Novell Eagle series cards were 10Mbit/ISA. Consequently, unless there is a *special* driver offered by the manufacturer of *your* cards to run at 100Mbit, you are out of luck. Of course, in 100Mbit mode, we no longer have an NE-2000. -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message