Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 09:36:25 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: BICC (C-LANCE) DE 205 Message-ID: <199512060836.JAA21748@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199512052005.UAA19110@whydos.lkg.dec.com> from "Matt Thomas" at Dec 5, 95 08:04:46 pm
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> > > In <199512051049.LAA17872@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> , you wrote: > > > Booting a 2.1.0 system I get > > [...] > > le0 not found at 0x300 > > lnc0 not found at 0x280 > > lnc1 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 drq 0 on isa > > lnc1: BICC (C-LANCE) Ethernet controller, address 00:00:40:01:00:00 > > > > > > Later I'm trying to start the interface and get > > > > lnc1: Initialisation failed > > > > This is a ASUS PCI/I P54?? board. The Lance controller is a DEC > > DE 205 Etherworks III which works fine under Win95%/NT in that > > very same box. > > > > Any clues? The ethernet address looks a bit strange, doesn't it? > > The DE205 is not LANCE based, it is a DEC private chip called the LeMAC. > You must use the le driver to access it (and it obviosly didn't find it). > What are the settings being used under Windows NT? I put on my glasses and saw that it is a EtherWORKS DE 203, not a DE205. Excuse the misinformation but these imprinted into sheet letters in the back mounting panel are diffult to decipher sometimes. I just noticed that (due to some network card swapping it escaped to me) it wasn't yet running under NT but under Win95 it works and has the setting 0x300-0x31f/5/c8000-c87ff. > > Matt Thomas Internet: matt@lkg.dec.com > 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: <pending> > Westford, MA Disclaimer: Digital disavows all knowledge > of this message > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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