From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 01:32:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29125 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:32:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29073 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:31:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@silver.sms.fi) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.8/8.7.3) id LAA07763; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:31:40 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:31:40 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199801220931.LAA07763@silver.sms.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Petri Helenius To: Doug White Cc: Greg Miller , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about AT-1700 ethernet card In-Reply-To: References: <199801201654.LAA14255@postoffice.Reston.mci.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The AT1700 (plus or not) card runs on the fe0 driver. Pete Doug White writes: > On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Greg Miller wrote: > > > >What type of card is this? (isa, pci?) > > > > Sorry. It's ISA. Also, I just realized that it's actually an AT-1700T Plus, > > not just a vanilla AT-1700. Does that matter? > > I've never heard of it, so I'm more interested in what class of drivers > this could land in. (The plus may connote that it's a NE2000+ -compatible > card, which is not supported.) > > > >I'd suggest trying the ed device driver first; it's pretty generic. > > > > I tried the ed0 driver, after first changing the card's settings to > > IRQ 5 > > port addr 0x280 > > boot rom addr 0xd8000 > > > > The installation program still doesn't recognize the card. > > Then try the lnc0 device next. After that....:-/ > > > I have another card that also doesn't work. It's a 3Com 3C509B. I have a > > plain 3C509 that does work, but the rev B card isn't recognized when using > > the 3C509 driver. Any suggestions? > > The B isn't significant (unlike for other cards). > > . Verify the card's settings with INSTALL/3c5x9cfg. > . Turn Plug&Pray off with INSTALL/3C5X9CFG. > > > In general, I'm having trouble finding > > cards that are listed on the list of supported hardware. They seem to be > > older cards that have been replaced by newer revs. Any help will be > > appreciated. > > I have a good list for PCI cards, but not really for ISA. The best thing > in the ISA department I can recommend are stock generic ISA NE2000s with > Plug&Pray turned off. We have a (thankfully) pre-PnP one in our main > server (486/25sx) and it's chugging along quite nicely :-) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >