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To: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>
cc: Stefan Veith <stefan.veith@mail.online-club.de>,
        "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
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Subject: Re: ed0 vs ed1 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:25:01 CDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:29:17 -0700
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>Doug White spake unto us thusly:
>
>ed0 is reserved for the ISA driver in the GENERIC kernel. ed1 and up is
>for PCI NE2000s.
>
>
>I find it *very* difficult to believe you are correct in this.  ed0/ed1 
>are specifically reserved for SMC80xx (as well as others) NIC's.  The
>SMC80xx (we use the 8013's, as does about 1/3rd of the planet who bought
>em years and years ago...) are *only* available as ISA cars (AFAIK)...
>
>
>What if I want 2 of these NICS in 1 machine?  Your assertion would tend
>to indicate that I would be unable to do this, as I would have to have
>ed1 filled by a non-ISA NIC.

   The device number has nothing to do with the board type. Multiple ed*
devices were provided for configuration varietry/convenience and for no
other purpose. We later dropped this and so now there's only one device
configured by default in 3.x.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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