Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:01:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NE2000 Plus not probed correctly? Message-ID: <199605210231.MAA24242@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960520135330.1359P-100000@zot.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at May 20, 96 02:00:58 pm
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Brian Tao stands accused of saying:
>
> A friend of mine has a no-name ("Ether-16+") ISA Ethernet
> controller that claims to be an NE2000+ card, but purports to run with
> any NE2000 driver. The Novell-supplied drivers on the same machine
> (booting into both DOS and OS/2 Warp) recognize and use the card
> properly. It is configured for IRQ 12, port 0x300 and iomem 0xd0000
> in Novell. The ed0 driver is also configured with the same settings,
> but the device probe on boot fails to locate the card ("ed0 not found
> at 0x300"). We've tried different IRQ's and port addresses to no
> avail. This is on a 2.1.0R machine, 100-MHz Cyrix 586. Any ideas?
If the card has an 'iomem' setting, it's not an NE2000. Point the Crynwyr
NE2000 packet driver at it and see whether it finds it. If it does, then
it looks like the 'ed' driver is losing, otherwise perhaps it's not
an 8390-compatible.
> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
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