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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 09:13:38 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Alex Popa <ctv036@fx.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual ISA NE2000 network cards with 4.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20000519091337.G43140@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000519001156.A4693@rs36.fx.ro>
References:  <20000519001156.A4693@rs36.fx.ro>

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On Friday, 19 May 2000 at  0:11:56 +0300, Alex Popa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 4.0 off a CD I made from the ISO found at
> ftp.freebsd.org.
>
>
> The problem is I do not know how to make the kernel use both network
> cards (they are both old NE2000, on ISA, in a very old 486 machine).
> One card has io 0x360, irq 11, the other io 0x340, irq 5; I do not know
> what values I should use for the memory base of the cards.

You don't need to specify the memory base.

> I tried to copy the line in the GENERIC config file, and change ed0
> to ed1, and the io and irq values, but the recompiled kernel does
> not detect both cards.

It should do.  Are you sure that the settings are right?

> (I actually edited a copy of GENERIC, not the file itself, if that's
> an issue).

No, that's the correct way to do it.

> If there is a need, I will send the kernel's output, but that will
> take a little longer :(

You could try booting with the verbose option and showing the relevant
parts of the dmesg output.

Greg
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