From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 2 15:20:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C16114F8A for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:20:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03091; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:14:42 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:14:42 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Paul Lee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to install NIC under FreeBSD 3.2 release In-Reply-To: <19990802062614.65013.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 [Please ALWAYS Cc: freebsd-questions] On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Paul Lee wrote: > Oh right... > > So, I need to specify NIC's irq then. > How about IO address? Do I need to specify this in FreeBSD? > > My NICs' IRQ & IO setting > > LinkSys Lan16 : irq=9 io=300 > CNet 650E : irq=10 io=280 > > Where can I configure it (I guess it is /etc/rc.conf)and how? What lines > should I add? During bootup, if you hit the space bar, it is possible to configure the IRQ/IO settings for each network interface. What I personally do, however, is to compile a specific kernel with the relevant IRQ/IO for each ISA card. Cheers. Jonathan Chen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message