From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 8 09:38:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA12381 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:38:04 -0800 Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA12375 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:38:00 -0800 Received: by Sysiphos id AA09833 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@freebsd.org); Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:35:32 +0100 Message-Id: <199511081735.AA09833@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:35:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Eric L. Hernes" "compaq's builtin pci bus" (Nov 8, 9:42) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: "Eric L. Hernes" Subject: Re: compaq's builtin pci bus Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 8, 9:42, "Eric L. Hernes" wrote: } Subject: compaq's builtin pci bus } } Is anyone using one of these compaqs with builtin pci ether. } If yes, what's the trick to get the bus probed? Which version of FreeBSD is that ??? Please try the boot floppy from the latest SNAP, and if it doesn't work, send verbose boot messages (output with "-v" entered at the "Boot: " prompt). } The ether chip is an AMD PCNet, which may be handled by } the lnc driver, but it doesn't look like the bus is } even recognized. Try setting the port address to 0x7000, since this has been reported to be the value choosen by Compaq's PCI BIOS. Don't know the IRQ offhand, though. But you first have to get FreeBSD to probe the PCI bus. And FreeBSD-current and the latest SNAPs ought to get it right ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se