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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 1999 12:16:23 +0800 (PHT)
From:      "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" <dune@cats.edu.ph>
To:        Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net>
Cc:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI NE2000 problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.990213121438.3746D-100000@mayon.cats.edu.ph>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990212225203.11073B-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net>

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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Troy Settle wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Dan Busarow wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Francis Percival C. Favoreal wrote:
> > > de0 <Digital 21041 Ethernet> rev 33 int a irq 10 on pci0:13:0
> > > de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
> > > de0: address 00:80:c8:59:e1:dc
> > > vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 16 int a irq 11 on pci0:15:0
> > > ed0 <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:16:0
> > 
> > PCI NE2000 should be detected at ed1, ed0 is ISA
> 
> This depends entirely on the kernel configuration.  I had a box with 2
> of these, and they are ed0 and ed1.  Both worked perfectly.
> 
> > 
> > > The kernel is compiled with ed0 config as,
> > > 
> > > device ed? at pci0 port 0xff80 net irq 12 iomem 0xd800 vector edintr
> > 
> > Wrong.  You don't want that.  Number 4 below is the one you want.
> > > 
> > > I also tried the ff. ed0 configs then compiling the kernel for each:
> > > 
> > > (1) device ed? at pci0
> > > (2) device ed? at pci?
> > > (2) device ed? at pnp0
> > > (3) device ed? at pnp?
> > > (4) device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 3 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
> > > (5) device ed0 at isa? disable port 0x300 net irq 3 iomem 0xd8000 vector
> > > edintr
> 
> Try this:
> 
> device ed0
> 
> no options, no nothing.  This will get everything you need for this card
> to work.
> 
> 
> I did have the same problem as the original poster, reseating the card did
> the trick... I guess it just wasn't comfortable the first time.
> 
> If still no luck, try booting the generic kernel.  It has the appropriate
> drivers as well.  The card will show up as either ed1 or 2.
> 
> And, as a final, last resort, try swapping out the card for another.
> Could have a bad card on your hands.
> 

Thank you for those who responded.

I finally got it to work. All that I did was to disable Plug-n-Play from
the BIOS and all is well already. God, after months of thinking about this
and it's finally over.


--
riko
sYsAd
CATSNET


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