From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 21:24:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id VAA14914 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14909 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA07398; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:24:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:24:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Saekow Apitep cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need your help, Sir. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Saekow Apitep wrote: > > 1. Set an IRQ for this device in BIOS Setup. > Do you mean I have to press "del" to set up IRQ in BIOS? > If so, could you please tell me exactly how to set an IRQ for this > device in BIOS? Yes. However, not all BIOS setups have the ability to set IRQs for specific slots. The only one I know if is Phoenix BIOS v4.0x (the one in this box). > > 2. put '-v' on the Boot: prompt, obtain the IRQ and port address of the > > card, and give that to the ed0 device. > Do you mean after I boot the FreeBSD bootdisk? > If so, could you give an example how to do this? > this is like the following? > > Boot: -v Just -v. Note the information you get for the device (use scroll-lock and up arrow) and post it. > > I think. 2.2, I believe, has a smart ed device driver that can probe the > > PCI bus as well. > > > > > The card works excellent with Microsoft windows(3.11,95,NT) ,and being used > > > by IRQ 11 and I/O address 1000-101F under Win95. > > > > You gave this info to the ed0 device in -c, right? > What do you mean by "-c" here? UserConfig, ie, put -c on the Boot: prompt to enter the device config editor. > If it is hard to explain everything here, could you please tell me where I > can get more information about setting up a network card on FreeBSD? Well, you have a special situation in that you have a PCI NE2000 card. They are normally ISA cards. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major