From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 09:41:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28485 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 09:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28478 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 09:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA22936; Sat, 9 May 1998 09:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd022928; Sat May 9 16:41:02 1998 Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 09:40:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Thrawn cc: BSD Questions Subject: Re: FW: Basic networking In-Reply-To: <000101bd7b50$7021b7e0$0200a8c0@tkk.sdf1net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the driver for ne2000 cards is the ed0 driver.. use the '-vc' option during boot to make hte ed0 driver have your board's port, and irq values. (don't forget port is specified in hex with leading 0x) julian On Sat, 9 May 1998, Thrawn wrote: > sorry if this got posted twice, my mail progie crashed when I first sent this > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thrawn [mailto:thrawn@hub.org] > Sent: Saturday, May 09, 1998 9:40 AM > To: BSD Questions > Subject: Basic networking > > > I have just installed (for the first time, so I would have to be considered a newbie at FreeBSD but I do have a greater amount of knowledge concerning Linux (I know I know, I should switch - well that is what I am attempting to try) well Im running into a snag, my LinkSys Ether16 (NE2000 compatible device) is not being detected as it should. here is a clip from the boot messages > > ie0: unknown board_id: a0 > ie0 not found at 0x300 > ep0 not found at 0x300 > ex0 not found > le0 not found at 0x300 > > the first line points that it found the card on ie0, but the board_id is all messed up, if I change around the IRQ's and IO addies I sometimes get differing results for the board_id, but in the end of tring them all I still can not get the device to load. > > Yes, the device is PnP, but I have turned that all off (as linux was having problems with the PnP side for this NIC) > > Any pointers on what is going on here would be great > > TIA > Ray Slakinski > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message