Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:17:12 +0000 From: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) To: bob <obiwan!bob> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ep, 3C579 Message-ID: <8017.199501240818@seagoon.gid.co.uk>
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>Bob Bishop wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> On 2.0R, does the ep driver work with 3C579?
>>
>> If so, how should it be configured? I have the driver recognising the card
>> at 0x8000 (ie slot 8) and the interface seems to come up, but it won't pass
>> packets enough for ping to work (half-formed entries in the ARP cache).
>>
>> Had to configure the card on interrupt 9 and the driver on irq 10 otherwise
>> got complaints about mismatch from the driver. This doesn't seem right, but
>> I know nothing about EISA anyway.
>
>What are you using for a config file specification for your card? I can't
>even get as far as you have. Though the epprobe routine finds the card
>I haven't a clue what interface specification to use. I have tried
>a variety of ep? values to no avail.
>
>
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I'm setting (via /kernel -c):
port ep0 0x8000
You need to set port to 0xN000 where the card is in slot N.
Driver handling of the the irq seems wrong at present. I'm working with
Andres <Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr> to test a fix for the driver.
Watch this space...
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