Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:18:44 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Bob Boone <bboone@whro.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ETHERNET / PCI Problems.... Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970325231844.00d35808@mixcom.com>
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At 03:46 PM 3/25/97 -0500, Bob Boone wrote: >PROBLEM: > > I've been using an ISA ethernet card w/ thin-net only connector. My >local net is moving to ALL UTP, so I bought a new card -- RPTI E2000PCI >card, but can't change the internal port/irq setings to match the 300/5 >that are looked-for by the kernel scan. Result -- no network connection >with this card - BSD doesn't see network. It is an AUTOMATIC card, and >I can't find any set-up program to get into it and CHANGE anything. Do you even know what it is set at? What about jumpers? > SYSTEM VIEW: OCTEK Rhino-6 motherboard, 100m Pentium, IDE hdrive, >single floppy, SHA-1500 scsi controller/ NEC CD, PCI video card, FreeBSD >2.1.5, Apache 1.1.1..... all has worked FINE since August '96. > > Considering move to BSD 2.2, but waiting for dust to settle. Not >familiar with PCI "choices" or kernel adaptations on BSD, but WILLING TO >LEARN. This should not be a problem if it is a PCI card. You don't say, but I'll assume ISA then. PCI is supposed to work autmagically, which is why it is probed first. >HELP. . . . . . Help, .... with ideas on kernal changes OR on ideas >for how to change RHINO BIOS to support/ direct the ethernet card to >the correct port/irq for BSD. With ISA cards this is easy. Edit the line in your kernel file (/sys/i386/conf/<kernel_file> and change the values. I'm using ed1, as you are not saying what the kernel thinks it is on boot. device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr You want say 0x280 and IRQ 9, so: device ed1 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr Rebuild and reboot. You can do the same thing with interactive mode (-c) on boot, which in your case I hope you can either find out or set the card via jumper and avoid hit and miss. Most cards are addressed at 280 or 300 and 5 or 10 for the IRQ I hate cards with no config disk. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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