Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:54:03 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat sriyotha <pirat@prime.oaep.go.th> To: simon mendoza <simon_v_mendoza@yahoo.com> Cc: Tim Parkinson <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk>, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Horrible things, NIC's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623104509.1127A-100000@prime.oaep.go.th> In-Reply-To: <19980621232453.12315.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>
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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, simon mendoza wrote: > ---pirat sriyotha <pirat@oaep.go.th> wrote: > > > > > > hi, > > > > from my failure books, you must know what the factory setting of > port number > > and interrupt number of your NE2000 card. you have to know, to get > them by any > > means. then boot -cv and setting ed0 ( or ed1) to those two numbers. > > > > sure you have to edit /etc/rc.conf to set things up correctly before > > shutdown -r now. and hit dash see we, -cv, at boot prompt, boot: > > > > rgds, > > psr > > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:51:05PM +0100, Tim Parkinson wrote: > > > Harumph, > > > > > > I just went out and bought a shiny new NE2000 compatible (read: > cheap) to go > > > alongside the one in my FreeBSD gateway, and replace the 3Com > 3c509 that had > > > been giving a bit of jip recently. I rolled up a nice new kernel, > changed > > > the startup stuff in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted -Aaaagh, complete > spasms. > > > Ifconfig refused to add the IP addresses and various other scary > problems > > > related to that. Finally, I have ifconfig adding the IP's but > still the > > > *naughty word-ing* thing is having problems. Grrr, I'm not happy. > > > > > > Note, this isn't a question. I just wanted to vent a little > frustration at > > > being a newbie and not being able to work out what is wrong! > > > > > > Still, I guess this is the best way to learn, have something fall > over and > > > have to get your hands dirty and fix it. > > > :( > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > Tim Parkinson -Teaching Company Associate > > > Nottingham Trent University & Clerical Gas Ltd > > > Tel: 0115 9783677 Fax: 0115 9706977 > > > tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk > > > tim@gubbins.ml.org -Home > > > > > >From experience on installing net (ne2000 compatible) cards I will > suggest booting from any msdos bootable diskette ( ver 5.0 or above) > and run the ezset.exe or config.exe setup program and select the > "display card configuration" so you will know the preset factory > setup. It usually gives you the IRQ 3 and Port address 0300-031F. > > Unfourtunately the diskettes that come with these net cards come with > dos configuration programs. Some day the same information willcome in > handy for us FreeBSD users. > this is really a very good news. today, i have to keep that floppy disk, dos edition, like a valuable treasure. as i know, there is no way to set a hardware port and irq number for ne2000 compatible from within freebsd-2.2.6. if one could get and set the same information from freebsd, that is good news. thanks to freebsd teams. rgds, psr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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