From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 25 22:42:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25603 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 22:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tiger.lantronix.com (tiger.lantronix.com [207.211.9.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25585 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 22:42:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maxk@lantronix.com) Received: from mulligan (arnie [192.111.119.91]) by tiger.lantronix.com with SMTP id WAA08097 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 for ); Mon, 25 May 1998 22:42:15 -0700 Received: from shark (shark.lantronix.com) by mulligan with SMTP id AA08558 (5.67b8+/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Mon, 25 May 1998 22:42:09 -0700 Received: by shark id AA02990 (5.67b8+/IDA-1.4.4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org); Mon, 25 May 1998 22:42:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 22:42:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Max Kartsev To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NIC Question Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I am having a problem configuring FreeBSD with Linksys' Ether16 LAN Card. The card is NE2000 compatible, PnP. I have installed one on a Pentium PC running FreeBSD, and it was recognized, via ed0 interface (addr 0x280, irq 10). The problem comes when installing the card on a 486 machine. I tried different ISA slots, tried installing a different card of the same type; also changed memory address to 0xffffff and irq to -1 thinking that it would poll all possible addresses. Even tried polling different interfaces (ie0, ep0, le0, etc.) Is there anything that I've missed? Is it still a compatibility issue? As I know, the card has 8/16bit autosense. Maybe it is not working properly? Can it be a PnP feature that causes the problem? Or maybe an old 486's ISA slot is too wide for this card and there's simply no electric contact? Any answers or help from you will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! M. Kartsev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message