From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 21:51:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA18129 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA18124 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id XAA08040; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:52:57 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma008032; Wed Mar 26 05:52:51 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970325234542.00d3d0e0@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:45:42 -0600 To: Luigi Rizzo From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: PCI network card config Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:21 PM 3/25/97 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> You'll need to goto 2.2 for NE2000 PCI support. The upgrade is >> quite painless and the PCI NIC will be recognized and config'd >> automatically. > >If you just write the correct io/irq values into the ed0 driver on >2.1.X you are ok, provided the irq is not shared with other cards. >Have been doing that for months on several machines. I grew real tired of this method quick and changed the settings on the cards. Of course some may not have that option or a driver disk for a generic card, which I also dumped those to 95 workstations. Still the question is for PCI, which works differently and is not controlled in the kernel config file. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990