Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:57:39 -0500 From: NetAdmin <daemon@foxchat.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and ed0 Message-ID: <1099796259.900.10.camel@foxdaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <20041107024320.GB66864@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <418D8887.1020105@trini0.org> <20041107024320.GB66864@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 21:43, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:29:27PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> > Im trying to move from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3.
> > When I used to install 3.x/4.x on this box, I would configure
> > the network card during the install process.
> > According to the manual, the device config part of the install,
> > was taken out, but the network card doesnt get identified by FreeBSD 5.=
3.
> > I tried selecting #6 during the install boot menu,
> > and entered ->
> > boot -c
> > in the hopes to get the device config screen, but I didn't get that.
> > Is it possible to get that pre FBSD 5.x device config screen,
> > or is there some way to configure that network card during the install=20
> > process??
>=20
> I believe you can set a hint variable from the loader prompt. The
> defaults are:
>=20
> hint.ed.0.at=3D"isa"
> hint.ed.0.disabled=3D"1"
> hint.ed.0.port=3D"0x280"
> hint.ed.0.irq=3D"10"
> hint.ed.0.maddr=3D"0xd8000"
>=20
> Kris
For what it's worth, here are my ed0 settings.
# uname -a
FreeBSD foxdaemon.com 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 6
12:56:51 EST 2004
# ifconfig -m ed0
ed0: flags=3D108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
inet 24.172.XXX.XXX netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 24.172.XXX.XXX
ether 00:e0:29:4e:58:ab
# dmesg | grep ed0
ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0x9000-0x901f irq 7 at
device 11.0 on pci0
ed0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ed0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:29:4e:58:ab
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