From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 9: 7:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dukat.noc.cup.ndp.net (dukat.noc.cup.ndp.net [209.212.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B2C15349 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andym@ntt.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.noc.cup.ndp.net [127.0.0.1]) by dukat.noc.cup.ndp.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA14306; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andym@ntt.net) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:07:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Andy McConnell To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dave Goodman Subject: Gateway 486DX2-66 and ISA network cards Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-2022-JP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We tried this weekend to install 3.1-RELEASE on a Gateway 2000 486DX2-66 with ISA slots and various different network cards... Some supported, some not. But every time, FreeBSD refused to recognize the cards. We were working with: D-Link DE-220 (probably not supported, no we changed cards) NetGear 201 (same deal - our fault for getting something not in the FAQ - but it was NE2000 compliant, or so we thought) Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ (Specifically supported by ex0 (man 4 ex)) Nothing. We ran the Intel diagnostics disk program (Softset2), forced the IRQ and port number to 5/0x300, and tested it... worked great, according to the softset2 program. We even recomplied the kernel giving the ex0 driver the specific irq 5 and port 0x300 arguments. And we made sure to disable the PnP on the card, and saved it all to the NIC's memory. Nothing. The closest we came was the ie0 driver found a board at 0x300, but said it could not inderstand the boad ID. That made sense to us, since it's the i82585 chipset on the card, not the i82586 that the ie driver supports. We tried looking in the Gateway's BIOS settings for something to tweak - there was nothing. Is there anything else we may have overlooked? -Andy -- Andy McConnell 真向練 安堵龍 Network and IP Service Division, NTT America As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so. -- Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message