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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 23:23:11 -0700 (MST)
From:      Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Generic iPORT PCMCIA adapter and FreeBSD 4.3 installation
Message-ID:  <20010502225311.K29390-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>

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	Hi.  I'm installing FreeBSD 4.3 on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop,
and am having trouble getting sysintall and/or the kernel to see my
ethernet card.  The card I have is a supercheap generic iPort 10Mbps
Ethernet Card, bought at CompUSA for $20.  I was hoping to never have to
defile this machine by booting under Windows, but I did in order to see if
there were some setting that I was missing -- Bill says the IRQ is 10, and
the address 0x300.
	Under the kernel config the pcic0 controller registers a confict,
as do ALL the network adapters (set to IRQ 10).  When I change the pcic0
controller's parameters to those of pcic1 (which doesn't conflict, 0x3e2
0xd4000), the conflict disappears but then sysinstall doesn't register any
PCMCIA cards at all (duh?).  When I remove all of the network adapters and
don't mess with pcic0 at all, the machine hangs on boot after the line:

plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0

	I suspect that I will have to just go out and buy a better
ethernet card.  If anyone has any ideas that might help me I would be
grateful for anything you can provide.  Thanks in advance,

				- Jason Barnes


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