From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 21:03:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27227 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27211 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA13766; Tue, 13 May 1997 13:31:50 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705130401.NAA13766@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "May 12, 97 09:55:29 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:31:50 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > All this talk reminds me of all of those silly NE2000 compatible cards > that I have laying around useless since FreeBSD can't find them on > boot. Any idea how to make FreeBSD probe really hard for them? Can you be more specific? Are these PCI or ISA cards? Which chip(set)? If these are the stupid ones that use the external serial EEPROM then either (if the prom is socketed) you can pull the PROM, read it, crossreference it against the datasheet, and there you are. Alternatively, just sit down and boot with -c, going through the possible address values (0x280, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360) looking for them. Then repeat the process looking for the IRQ. Or are these cards where you know the settings but they don't show up? The 'problem' with probing wildly for 'ed' cards is just that you have to kick them to make them talk. If you kick something else instead, it might get upset. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[