Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:40:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Rouillard <crouilla@ucsd.edu> To: Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> Cc: "Oke M. Ramdan" <ramdan@iname.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 compatible PCI network card unsupported ? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.4.02A.9811131414290.13491-100000@sdcc10.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <364CAD0B.EDA05536@tpgi.com.au>
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote:
> 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.
1. In my experience, the 3 card config will work *if* you put
in a 'dummy' definition for ed1. For example,
device ed0 /* all *your* ISA config stuff here */
device ed1 /* Nothing here! Dummy device! */
I haven't mixed ISA/PCI NE2000 cards on BSD before, but this
appears correct from similar experience. The two PCI cards
*should* get autoprobed as ed2 and ed3.
2. As someone pointed out earlier, there was no such NE2000 with
100Mbit capabilities. The original Novell Eagle series cards
were 10Mbit/ISA. Consequently, unless there is a *special*
driver offered by the manufacturer of *your* cards to run at
100Mbit, you are out of luck. Of course, in 100Mbit mode, we
no longer have an NE-2000.
-Chuck
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