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From: Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Is NE2000 compatible PCI network card unsupported ?
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Chuck Rouillard wrote:
> 
> [chop]
> > This is wierd. I have several NE2000 compatible cards on my
> > PCI bus and they work fine (ed driver). But I also have a NE2000
> > card on the ISA bus as well.
> >
> > > Oke M. Ramdan wrote:
> > >
> > > To Whom It May Concern,
> > >
> > > I have a NE2000 compatible PCI 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter on my
> > > maschine, but it doesn't work.
> > > During boot appears:
> > >
> > > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> > > ...
> > > pci0:10:    vendor=0x10ec, device=0x8139, class=network (ethernet) int
> > > a irq 10 [no driver assigned]
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
> > > ...
> > > ed0 not found at 0xffffffff
> > > fe0 not found at 0x300
> > > ...
> > >
> > > My FreeBSD version is 2.2.7-RELEASE
> > > Does FreeBSD not support NE2000 compatible PCI network adapter ?
> > >
> > > Thank you for your attention to this matter.
> > >
> > > Oke M. Ramdan
> > > ramdan@iname.com
> 
> In either case(PCI/ISA), its the 'ed' driver.  In my experience, the
> NE2000 driver uses ed0 and ed1 for ISA(exclusively?) and ed2 and ed3
> for PCI(exclusively?).  To get my 2.2.5 boxen up with 2 PCI variants,
> I needed to add two lies for ed0 *and* ed1 *without* any options set
> for either.  The driver then lookes for PCI cards and finds them.

Well, I've just got NE2000 10Mbit cards:
 
	ed0	ISA
	ed1	PCI
	ed2	PCI
 
And only the ed0 device in the kernel config file.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has got a NE2000 10/100Mbit PCI card
to work correctly in the 100Mbit mode, and what the speeds are like...

Eddie.

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