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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:18:16 -0700 (PDT)
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To: "Christopher T. Johnson" <cjohnson@netgsi.com>
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Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change...
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Christopher T. Johnson wrote:

> Having installed FreeBSD on 7 machines in the last 2 months, the one
> thing that all the NICs had in common was IRQ 10, IO 0x300.
> 
> Every one had to be opened up and the NIC reset to use IRQ 5, IO 0x280
> to match the FreeBSD defaults.

  It would have been easier to use the visual configuration tool on the
boot floppy to change ed0, rather that tearing apart the systems.  This is
what I do.

> I would be perfectly happy if ed1 came up as IRQ 10, IO 0x300 which should
> allow both groups to be happy.
> 
> 	Chris
> 
> 

Tom