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Date:      Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:13:22 -0400
From:      Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
To:        Vernon Buck Jr <vbuck@usa.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 3.4 Release Network Card install
Message-ID:  <393E9ED2.B99BDD82@wmptl.com>
References:  <20000607190340.19599.qmail@nwcst286.netaddress.usa.net>

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Vernon Buck Jr wrote:
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 3.4-Release on an old Dell P100 Dimension, and put in an
> ISA Generic network card that appears to be NE2000 compatible, so I was going
> to install it to get network support.  But I don't see e0 as an option in the
> sysintall networking section just Parallel, and Com ports for PPP.  Am I going
> about this wrong?
> 
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sounds like your kernel does not probe the network card, check the
IRQ/Memory address settings for that card; unlike PCI cards, you have to
statically assign (most anyhow) ISA cards. Then you need to 'tell' the
kernel at startup not only to probe for that card, but also which
address/irq to probe for it on. I believe an NE2000 card will be picked
up as an ed0/ed1/ed2/etc device.

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