From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 11: 7: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCA8152AC for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28105 from for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 20:06:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04563 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 20:06:57 +0100 Message-ID: <36E17D16.C014CB43@eboa.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 20:08:06 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: novell ne2000 - no iomem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Howe wrote: > > FBSD 2.2.8 > Cyrix 150 686 > 1 ide hdd, 1 floppy > 1 Novell NE 2000 And probably serial and parallel ports, maybe even joystick and soundblasters that all take I/O ports . > all my custom kernels and the Generic kernel bomb > with various errors no matter how i try to configure > my Novell NE2000 (no reserved memory). I'm currently running 3.1-RELEASE with NE-2000 clown card at 0x300 and IRQ 2 (AKA 9). As already has been said IRQ 9 is sometimes used by video cards. I believe to signal the blanking so you can write DOS video games without the flickering. Another system is also running 3.1-RELEASE with a Novell/Eagle NE-2000 also at 0x300 IRQ 2. B.t.w. the Novell NE-2000's don't use shared memory. The 0xd8000 adres is for the bootprom, if present. > i've tried all sort of combinations to no avail, > ... > the card works fine in other (win) networked machines. > any advice anyone? You should be able to boot from the install diskettes, edit the params to e.g. 0x300 and IRQ 2 (having set the jumpers on the card to the corresponding positions, of course) and it should work. If not then there is most likely some obscure port address conflict. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message