Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:25:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck <crtb@capecod.net> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: PNP NIC support? Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.1.990609095648.243A-100000@capecod.net> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110596D@site2s1>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > Do you know what the chipset on the card is? That's what you ultimately > want to know. > > The PnP portion shouldn't be a problem. > > -Chris Thanks for the response. Well, chipset! Hah! You tell me! There are four chips on the board, two of which may be of interest, as follows: 1. The big chip, surface mount. Has a sticker with "YES Netware" on it" which hides the chip info. Under the sticker: P/N: 181025183760 9839M BH 6066.3 2. Next biggest chip says: HT93LC56-C 9747K1602 Silkscreen on the board says EA201 D2, and Bay Networks (Aha!), and there is a sticker on the board which says EA21029111 004005 A5BB36. And of course the box it came in said NETGEAR. By chasing after the board with an ed0 driver (FBSD 2.2.7R), I have found its e-net address 00:40:33:2a:06:27, and it almost responds. The board comes up enough that I can ifconfig ed1 and proclaim a route for it. It tickles the box at the other end, but I keep getting ed1 timeout messages, and no ping responses are detected, even though the box at the other end burps. I suspect it can't receive. I've played with coordinating what I tell the pnp portion and the ed1 configs when booting, using irq 6, then 15. The system seems to like the board until it actually tries to use it. What I maybe really need most is: what are those two numbers in the pnp command at boot -cv time? The DSN and LDN. I used 1 and 1, and that may be off. Thus, "pnp 1 1 enable os port0 0x280 mem0 0xd9000 irq15 1 drq6 1" --any idea whether 1 1 is the right set of numbers? Before boot, I see "Award BIOS" "Initializing Plug & Play Cards" and "Card-01 NETGEAR EA201 Ethernet Card" - unmentioned in the FBSD3.2 handbook. Sorry if the above is rather disorganized, but I'm new to PnP. And believe me, I'm tremendously grateful for the support I've gotten in the past for other querulous wailings I've made about FreeBSD. Love it! Chuck Bacon -- crtb@capecod.net ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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