From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 12: 7:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E73B37B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:07:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from cactus.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:05:12 +0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: Novikmec Jozef Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NE2000 ioport problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:53:51 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:05:12 +0000 Message-ID: <10562.981489912@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Greg MATTHEWS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you can hard code this when you compile the kernel or you can set it in /boot/kernel.conf (this is where it is set during sysinstall). if this nic is not plug and play then beware! for legacy cards that dont support PnP the irq and io address are set using a 'setup' programme usually runable from dos only. check with your vendors web site. hope this helps GREG > I tried to install FreeBSD 3.4 a I had problem with ethernet card. That > card is NE2000 compatible. During the instalation I set the IO address to > 0x340 instead 0x280 which is default. (my NIC is on this address, it's > works corectly in Linux and Windowz enviroment too) But after instalation > and reboot kernel (I'm sorry if it is not right but I'm new in FreeBSD and > this I took from Linux :-)) again trying to set NIC to 0x280. > During the instalation Free got IP address from DHCP server so I think > that works properly. > > I would like to ask where to set IO for NIC to 0x340. Could you suggest me > some documentation for answers for questions like this. I read FreeBSD > HANDBOOK but I didn't find answer. > > Thanks. > > | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message