Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:29:17 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org> Cc: Stefan Veith <stefan.veith@mail.online-club.de>, "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ed0 vs ed1 Message-ID: <199804302229.PAA24856@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:25:01 CDT." <01BD7419.DADC7F90@w3svcs.mfn.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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