From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 19:17:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com (cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com [24.3.25.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBC814DB4 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:17:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sjr@home.net) Received: from istari.home.net (localhost.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01921; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:17:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sjr@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com) Message-Id: <199911070317.WAA01921@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:17:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ and EEPROM problem To: rand@meridian-enviro.com Cc: chapmanb@arches.uga.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14371.7160.823862.191340@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 Nov, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > ** Brad Chapman on Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:56:50 -0500 (EST) > ** in [Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ and EEPROM problem] writes: > > Brad> I am trying to install an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ card on > Brad> FreeBSD 3.3-release and in searching through the -questions > Brad> archive came across your post from February of this year > Brad> concerning the oh-so-annoying error "Board's EEPROM is > Brad> Configured for IRQ 0, using 9." As you hinted to in your posts, > Brad> everything looks okay for me if I run "ifconfig -a" (ie. it > Brad> shows that ex0 is up and has the ip that I gave it) but I'm not > Brad> having any luck connecting externally to a cable modem. My > Brad> kernel config for it looks like: "device ex0 at isa? port? net > Brad> irq 9," so I've only set my irq (which I verified was free) and > Brad> left everything else to autodetect. > > Sounds exactly like you have a new Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ card > with one of the new hardware addresses. Unfortunately, the ex driver > uses the hardware address to decide if the card is a Pro/10 or a > Pro/10+, and I'm not capable of coming up with a better solution. So I > just added the check for an Ethernet address prefix of 00:90:27 in > addition to the existin check of a 00:A0:C9 prefix. There is already a bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8567 that claims to do a better job of identifying the Pro/10+ card. You might want to give the patch in the PR a try. -SR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message