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To: julia <julia@fregat.dp.ua>
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Subject: Re: I have some trouble with PCI Ethernet NE2000-like adapter
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julia wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have a PCI Ethernet card, which is (as noticed in its manual)
> NE2000-compatible.
> But it's not possible to specify its bus I/O address neither with jumpers
> nor
> with any setup program - there isn't EPROM on the card.
>
> So, I described it as:
>
> controller    pci0
> device        ed0 at pci?
>
> When system is booting, it founds this card, but as ed1, not ed0 !   Why?
> No error messages generating neither during building system nor during
> booting;
> network interface ed1 works good.Can I make this card ed0 ?  How should I
> specify
> it in the config file?
>
>                                       Sincerely yours, Mark.
>
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Hello,

For a reason that I do not know, plu-n-play devices like PCI boards are
numbered "1" (ed1 for an NE2000 board, pcm1 for sound devices, ....)

The name of the Ethernet board does not matter (just write
ifconfig_ed1="whatever you want" in /etc/rc.conf, like you would for an ed0
board)

    TfH


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