From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 22:16:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12274 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12195 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25076; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:11:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephen Roome cc: Dan Busarow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pci NE2000 probes as ed2 not ed0 ?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Dan Busarow wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Stephen Roome wrote: > > > I've just installed 2.2.5 on a blank box, recompiled a kernel and for some > > > reason the net card won't come up as ed0, only ed1 or ed2 depending on the > > > kernel config file. > > > > That's normal, at least for the PCI NE2000 we use. > > I figure it seems like everyone else is suffering the same thing, but I > don't think it should be expected. > > > Just specify ed2 in your rc.conf entry and everything will > > work fine. > > Same here, but it's obviously a nasty kludge for a badly written bit of > probe somewhere. It's for GENERIC so that we can pick up the two common configurations of ISA ed-driven cards and for PCI cards. They share the same namespace and driver and each instance has to be built in to be recognized. You can rebuild the kernel to fix that, as was described earlier. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message