From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 7 09:39:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25720 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25704 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA05632; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:39:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:39:08 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz To: Justin Clift cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NE-2100 and FreeBSD 2.3 In-Reply-To: <000301bdf20c$aa6c5e40$011d6ccb@knight> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Justin Clift wrote: > Hiya Karl, > > You seem to have some experience overcoming problems with NE-2100 cards? Hmmm... Yes, I guess so - I certainly used to use quite a few of them ;-) (I've cc'd this mail to the FreeBSD hardware list, in case someone else has heard of these cards)... > Any ideas for a first time BSD installer on how to get the machine to go > past the Visual setup when using one of these cards? > > I tried the settings I found in the mailing list archives where you > recommended to try: [snip] > I have no idea which settings the card is really ON though, as its totally > jumperless. > > The card is a HP PC/LAN card, supposed to be NE1500/2100 compatible. > > I'm attempting to get a 486/8mb/340MB HDD up and running on FreeBSD 2.3... Hmmm... FreeBSD 2.3? - FreeBSD normally has version such as 2.2.1, 2.2.7 etc. - I don't think there is a 2.3 :( Anyway, Your going to need to find out what that card's set to configuration wise before you will get it to work... 0x340, drq 7, irq 9 is what we run ours round here on - but we're lucky and have Jumpers to set on them... I just had a quick look round HP's website - I can't find that card, does it have an HP partnumber, something like J25537 or something? Most the 'jumperless' cards these days are Plug & Play, we need to find out if that card is - if it isn't there'll be usually a DOS based configuration program that will set the card up (e.g. for Intel ISA cards this used to be a utility called 'softset') Without knowing what the cards set to, and with having the IRQ, port and DMA to play with - the chances of 'guessing' it's settings are going to be quite slim... The only other thing I could think of would be to put it into a Win95 machine and see what that thinks about it - sometimes (if your lucky) it will manage to figure what the card is, and what's it on (it usually screws up the DMA channel - but that's not too hard to guess ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message