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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:39:08 +0100 (BST)
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        Justin Clift <vapour@digitaldistribution.com>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NE-2100 and FreeBSD 2.3
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810071729200.5619-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <000301bdf20c$aa6c5e40$011d6ccb@knight>

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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Justin Clift wrote:

> Hiya Karl,
> 
> You seem to have some experience overcoming problems with NE-2100 cards?

Hmmm... Yes, I guess so - I certainly used to use quite a few of them ;-)
(I've cc'd this mail to the FreeBSD hardware list, in case someone else
has heard of these cards)...

> Any ideas for a first time BSD installer on how to get the machine to go
> past the Visual setup when using one of these cards?
> 
> I tried the settings I found in the mailing list archives where you
> recommended to try:

[snip]

> I have no idea which settings the card is really ON though, as its totally
> jumperless.
> 
> The card is a HP PC/LAN card, supposed to be NE1500/2100 compatible.
> 
> I'm attempting to get a 486/8mb/340MB HDD up and running on FreeBSD 2.3...

Hmmm... FreeBSD 2.3? - FreeBSD normally has version such as 2.2.1, 2.2.7
etc. - I don't think there is a 2.3 :(

Anyway, Your going to need to find out what that card's set to
configuration wise  before you will get it to work... 0x340, drq 7, irq 9
is what we run ours round here on - but we're lucky and have Jumpers to
set on them...

I just had a quick look round HP's website - I can't find that card, does
it have an HP partnumber, something like J25537 or something?

Most the 'jumperless' cards these days are Plug & Play, we need to find
out if that card is - if it isn't there'll be usually a DOS based
configuration program that will set the card up (e.g. for Intel ISA cards
this used to be a utility called 'softset')

Without knowing what the cards set to, and with having the IRQ, port and
DMA to play with - the chances of 'guessing' it's settings are going to be
quite slim...

The only other thing I could think of would be to put it into a Win95
machine and see what that thinks about it - sometimes (if your lucky) it
will manage to figure what the card is, and what's it on (it usually
screws up the DMA channel - but that's not too hard to guess ;-)

Regards,

Karl




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