Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: pizzaman@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing Free BDS with the WAVE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113203110.24708l-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <98Jan13.194332-0500_est.325984-15743%2B1000@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 pizzaman@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca wrote: > It does not find ed0 at all. It says that there is no device (or > something to that effect ). Phooey. > I used the install program that my card > came with to check out it's IRQ and IO addresses. Io is 240 and the > IRG is 11. The program tells me (well actually it shows me since my > computer does not talk :^) ) that it is a 8416T 10Base-T i/o base > 240 IRQ 11 node address 00-E0-29-03-21-27 (whatever that is). I had > configured the kernel and put in the values that I was given but > ...as I said before Still no joy. So you booted with the -c option and set network device ed0 to address 0x240, IRQ 11? Did you remove all the other network devices? > Oh yea, it is an Isa card. When the > Guy from Rogers Wave came over to do the install he said he couldn't > get the PCI card to work since I had an older Pentium PCI model and > the plug and play didn't work the way it should. That's common; P75s and before usually have busted PCI implementations. Packard Hells are especially prone. > He replaced it with a ISA 16 bit card. Of course he also claimed the > system didn't work and he would have to get someone to check it out the > next day. (I was using the internet ten minutes after he left, It worked > fine). Wow, sounds like I should go work for Rogers Wave; I do the same thing for UO ResNet and get paid a pittance :) > If you're having trouble, please post the output of the `dmesg' > command and the current IRQ & port settings of your Ethernet card as > supplied by the setup program (or in a pinch Win95). > > I can not output dmesg because I haven't got a clue what you're > talking about The `dmesg' UNIX command outputs the boot messages. Try running it sometime, it's quite helpful for including in mail messages so I can tell what's installed in the system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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