Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:14:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Message-ID: <E0wR8yO-0004tz-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 13:31:50 %2B0930." <199705130401.NAA13766@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199705130401.NAA13766@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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In message <199705130401.NAA13766@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: : Can you be more specific? Are these PCI or ISA cards? Which chip(set)? ISA. Not sure, but I think 8390 based somehow. There is one that has NE83902 on it, while another one has two chips with labeled "MB86950B" and "MB86953" (both Fuji parts). I was told these are all NE2000 compatible, but I don't know where they are supposed to be on the bus or IRQ range. Oh, a third card: NE86950AB on it (hmmm, looks a little familiar). One card is labeled TIARA while another is TIARA LANCARD/F AT 10BT. One has a NOVELL label on it, but using the -c option below you suggested. One has jumper blocks clearly labeled, but FreeBSD dosn't recognize the card at all. Might not be NE-2000 compatible? That's the one with the two chips I listed above.... : Alternatively, just sit down and boot with -c, going through the possible : address values (0x280, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360) looking for them. : Then repeat the process looking for the IRQ. Yuck. Too bad you have to send packets before you know the IRQ is correct or not :-(. The Novell card lives at 0x320 I just discovered. : Or are these cards where you know the settings but they don't show up? For one of them yes. Generally, I don't know where the cards actually are, but the search technique above works well enough. : The 'problem' with probing wildly for 'ed' cards is just that you have : to kick them to make them talk. If you kick something else instead, it : might get upset. Yes. I'd love to say "I have a machine with nothing interesting in it, please kick at will and tell me what you find out" :-) Warner
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