Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:31:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Peter Wetzel <pdw99@cs.geneseo.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA NE2000 NIC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809211631100.11562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <002301bde4e3$4a0fcae0$0300010a@fuckme>
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On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Peter Wetzel wrote: > I'm having problems with my system even seeing my NIC. I know the NIC works, > as I took it out of my Pentium Win95 box. Here's what I know: > > The card is an ISA NE2000 NIC that came with my (win95) computer; I believe > its a clone (no docs handy). > > It's going into a 486 with FreeBSD 2.2.1 installed on it. The card was in > the machine during the install... it just didn't see it. > > I've tried changing the settings in boot -c to the default (irq 5), to what > they were in windows on the other machine (irq 3..), to everything in > between. I tried searching the archives but didn't find any fixes that > worked. The IRQ and I/O port set in FreeBSD *must* match those set on the card. Use your Windows settings as a guide. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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