Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:04:59 +1100 From: Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: chuck@ucsd.edu Cc: "Oke M. Ramdan" <ramdan@iname.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 compatible PCI network card unsupported ? Message-ID: <364CAD0B.EDA05536@tpgi.com.au> References: <Pine.SUN.4.02A.9811121756200.16426-100000@sdcc10.ucsd.edu>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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