Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:25:09 -0500 From: "Luis Berrizbeitia" <luisb@tfp.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ISA Nic help Message-ID: <003401c3a3f4$0ec07ef0$a3010101@lblap>
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Hi and thanks in advance to everybody who can help me with this, Basically, I have an isa ethernet card I am trying to get recognized and = configured. If someone could point me in the right direction, thanks. = Below is an explanation of some of the steps I have tried. I have pentium II (I think) 200 mhz, 32 mb ram, with a ~3 gb hard drive. = Currently I am running version 4.8 of freebsd. My question concerns an = isa ethernet network card. It is a Cabletron pn 9000342-04. The = physical card has a section for a boot prom and as well as a set of four = jumpers for the I/O address and a similar set for the boot prom. After = some research I finally found a page, apparently from the company that = bought out Cabletron (Enterasys), describing the jumper configuration. = The address, for those interested is = http://www.enterasys.com/support/matrix/ The details of my card are = available by clicking the link for the E11xx ISA 8bit card. According = to a diagram available on this website, I configured the board select = jumpers to a setting of 0x280 and left the boot prom jumpers untouched, = as per directions. Also available on this site is a dos utility for the = card. I stuck the network card in the machine, booted into dos using a = floppy, and pulled up the card's dos utility. In the first screen, the = user is asked which memory address is being used, listing as choices = 0x220, 0x280, 0x300, 0x380. Clicking on anything but the proper one = returned a card not found error. After clicking on 0x280, I was then = taken to a page where I could set the irq, which I set to 10. The next = page offers some tests available to check the card. One test asked = which ROM address I used. Clicking on the incorrect one will return a = failed rating on some tests. Checking the proper one, A000:0 in my = case, gives the card flying colors on all tests. I then rebooted into = freebsd and tried running: device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 from the = command line and received a device: not found reply. I checked the = output of dmesg to see if I could find any irq conflicts but didn't find = any (what should I be looking for?). Using the search feature I tried = finding anything with irq 10 but came up empty. At this point, after = checking FreeBSD Unleashed, the author basically says if you have an isa = card, have fun configuring it. He really does not go into details apart = from suggesting reading the driver's man page. From what I gather, this = particular card is NE2000 compatible or so I think. Since I could not = read the ed driver's man page (what is it called?) I decided on = reinstalling and using the kernel configuration section instead of = skipping it like I had done previously. I selected network, ne2000 = compatible card, and entered the proper memory addresses and irq = numbers. This did not seem to make the card work. One thing I forgot to = mention is that both the green light on the card and on a switch when I = plug in a patch cable light up. Don't know if that helps. I am not = running X so if anyone has any ideas please suggest stuff to do from the = shell (although gui tips will be appreciated if all else fails). = Lastly, I know many of you will point out that the card does not seem to = be listed in the Hardware support list. I know but again it appears to = be ne2000 compatible (if I am wrong please correct me and tell me not to = be so skimpy and just buy a pci card and forget about it). Again, = thanks to anybody who can help. Best regards, Luis
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