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Subject: Re: NIC 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 05:12:14 -0700
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>Hi. I am a very experienced user of FreeBSD. I am having a strange
>problem I hope you can shed some light on. A particular server I am
>working on has an AT/Lantic network card. It is ISA and when probed the
>system finds it to be ed1, irq 5, 0x300, and also prints the hardware
>address of the card to the console. When going through the install, when
>I initiate the install after the ip addressing screen the install
>stalls. I have checked the debugger screen and see a ed1 device timeout.
>This machine is intended to be a dual boot server, and has NT already
>installed. According to NT the card is IRQ 2, address 0x300. I have
>tried using these parameters but still no go. Is this a memory address
>thing?(it is set to 0xd800). Any suggestions you may have would be
>appreciated. Unfortunately I have no pci slots left in the machine, so I
>must use the at card. I have used many ne2000 variants in the past with
>no problems. The only other thing is its a 10baseT/coax combo card. Is
>there a parameter I can add at install to force the card into 10baseT
>mode? In the past dual mode cards have given some sort of interface
>parameter message on boot, but not this time. Help me...

   This isn't the first time I've heard of problems with AT/Lantic based
boards. I think the NIC is slightly incompatible in some way with standard
83*90 chips, but I don't know in what way.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project