Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:38:55 -0500 (CDT) From: mailtrail <substme@rc.tex-an.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA NIC card under 5.4R ??? (WD8003, non-PnP) Message-ID: <20050919132035.T10188@rc.tex-an.net> In-Reply-To: <200509191405.32387.ean@hedron.org> References: <20050919121743.T10188@rc.tex-an.net> <200509191405.32387.ean@hedron.org>
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[sorry about the lack of subject line on original post] On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ean Kingston wrote: > On September 19, 2005 01:57 pm, mailtrail wrote: >> I needed a quick firewall to guard an ISDN line, so I grabbed a K6/166. >> This box only came out of service a couple months ago, having run for >> several years on 4.3-stable (set up some time in 2001). >> The NIC card that is in it is an ISA bus card, a WD8003 (it was operating >> as ed0 in its previous incarnation). More for amusement than anything >> else, I decided to use that card, if I could, with a recent version of >> FreeBSD, so I loaded 5.4-R onto it. >> >> I now realize that I no longer have any idea how to tell the kernel how to >> find a non-PnP ISA card. >> >> Here is the kernel.conf file from the old box: >> en ed0 > Interface ed0 (someone correct me if I'm wrong it's been a while) So the "en ed0" command above is something along the lines of setting up a symbol for the rest of the configuration commands? Or is it something along the lines of a CISCO IOS "interface fe0" command, that says the rest of the commands refer to fast ethernet 0? >> po ed0 0x300 > Port to interface ed0 id 0x300 (bit of physical memory to access the nic) >> ir ed0 10 > IRQ for ed0 is 10 >> iom ed0 0xd8000 > I/0 memory for ed0 0xd8000 (for direct memory access IIRC) >> f ed0 0 > I forgot this one, sorry. >> q I'm guessing the "q" command is "quit", but I don't know if it means "don't pay attention to any further lines in this config file", or if it means "that's the end of configuring ed0". Does anyone remember? >> I don't even remember what lines 1 and 5 mean. How do I set IRQ, memory >> address, etc for a non-PnP ISA card under 5.4-R, if that is even possible? >> If not possible, is it supported under 4.11? >From a websearch it looks like the kernel config worked just about the same at least as late as 4.9-R, but it seems that the only people using ISA cards these days are in places like the Czech Republic and other places where I can't read the web pages. I couldn't even find a reference to using an ISA card under 5.4. Anybody know how under 5.4-R? >> This isn't critical by any means. The motherboard has two open PCI slots >> on it, so I could just use PCI NIC cards for the firewall, but I am >> curious if the old cards can still be used. I also have a second ISA NIC >> card, a WD8013, so it would be somewhat amusing to have this box running a >> firewall using those two old NIC cards. The ISA bus should be able to >> easily keep up with 128Kb of traffic; the old version of the box was a >> mail- and web-server, and never had problems keeping up with ISDN speeds.
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