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Date:      Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:40:06 -0500
From:      Constantine Shkolnyy <stan@osgroup.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: ed0: device timeout (repost)
Message-ID:  <01BEB35F.E63E2510.stan@osgroup.com>

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On Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:13 PM, ARCADY GENKIN [SMTP:genkin@usa.net] 
wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have a new installation of FreeBSD 3.2Rel. on an i486 with 2 ISA NE2000
> nics. I recompiled the kernel with the following parameters:
>
> device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000
> device ed1 at isa? port 0x240 net irq 3 iomem 0xd8000
>
> at boot time it looks like they are initialized properly:
>
> config> en ed0
> config> po ed0 0x300
> config> ir ed0 5
> config> iom ed0 0xd8000
> config> f ed0 0
> config> q
> [...]
> ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa
> ed0: address 52:54:4c:17:c9:5c, type NE2000 (16 bit)
> ed1 at 0x240-0x25f irq 3 on isa
> ed1: address 00:80:c8:ec:0f:39, type NE2000 (16 bit)
>
> any attempt to work with them, though, results in "edX: device timeout"
> warning.
>
> Q1: Does the above look sane? What are "config" and the latter parts of
> initialization?
> Q2: In the kernel configuration file, what is "iomem 0xd8000", and is it
> standard for all ethernet cards? If not, how can I find out the value for
> my system?

My understanding is that these values must be different for different
cards. These are probably physical memory addresses used by the boards.
They must be set differently in the boards themselves too.



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