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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        gummibear@we.mediaone.net
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I determine the port address of a NIC?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132221050.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980911215349.0069e1d8@we.mediaone.net>

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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote:

> 
> Hey guys/gals!
> 
> Okay let me get to the point here.  I installed a RealTek PCI ethernet card
> which is NE2000 compatible because I just got a cable modem.  The card
> works great under win95, but that's pretty much expected since it came with
> drivers.  Although, it did come with a Linux driver.  I figured that the
> NE2000 drivers would pick it up, and it did. :)
> 
> Anyways, it was detected just fine under FreeBSD although it was detected
> as ed1, but I'm confused to why it wasn't detected as ed0.  Wouldn't ed0 be
> the first NE2000 card on the system?  This is my only NIC in the machine.
> All I know about this card is that it's on IRQ 10 and the I/O range is 6000
> - 601F but that's about it.  How can I figure out what port it's on?  Maybe
> if I new that I can change the setting when I reboot and enter the -c
> command and go into visual mode.  Anyone have any ideas?

.  The card was assigned ed1 since ed0 is statically allocated to an ISA
instance of the card.  You can't remove it without removing the entire ed
driver from the kernel.

.  PCI cards are self-configuring, you don't set the IRQ or I/O port.

.  Just live with it on ed1 :-)

 Doug White                             | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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