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From: "Gallagher, Mick" <mick.gallagher@roke.co.uk>
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Subject: kernel.conf file (Was RE: Can't get ep to see Etherlink III ISA N
	IC on 3.4R)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:43:41 +0100
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I've only recently installed FreeBSD, so I'm still figuring out how things
work.

The 'di ep' stuff I inherited from the default /boot/kernel.conf file.

Why was this in there? How was this file generated?

Should I nuke the file altogether?

Thanks,
Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Omachonu Ogali [mailto:oogali@intranova.net]
> Sent: 18 May 2000 14:31
> To: Eric Jacoboni
> Cc: 'questions@freebsd.org'
> Subject: Re: Can't get ep to see Etherlink III ISA NIC on 3.4R
> 
> 
> On 18 May 2000, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Gallagher" == Gallagher, Mick 
> <mick.gallagher@roke.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > Gallagher> The ep device line is definitely in the kernel
> > Gallagher> configuration file, but I 
> > Gallagher> don't see any indication of ep doing anything at 
> boot time.
> > 
> > Is it a PnP card ? Mine is a 3C509B and dmesg output is :
> > 
> > ep0: <3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP)> at port 
> 0x210-0x21f irq 9 on isa0
> > ep0: Ethernet address 00:20:af:c4:92:fc
> > 
> > Gallagher> I ran an msdos diagnostics disk on the system, 
> and it found
> > Gallagher> the NIC no problem (it described it as '3COM913 ET 0').
> > 
> > Try to disable the PnP stuff if you can.
> 
> The problem here was that the card was being disabled 'di ep' 
> instead of
> being searched for.
> 
> > 
> > 
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