Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 18:39:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mail Archive <archive@cps.cmich.edu> To: Gary Crutcher <gcrutcher@datatrek.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Ethernet Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951102183649.16346B-100000@cps201> In-Reply-To: <02111995075626850.II6334@datatrek.com>
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On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Gary Crutcher wrote: > Help! > > For those of you who have installed an SMC EtherPower Combo PCI Ethernet > adapter, how did you adjust the settings? FreeBSD assumed ed0 to be at > port 0x280, irq 5, mem 0xd8000. The SMC ethernet card has no way setting > these values, as you would be able to with an ISA/EISA card. Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > PCI keyword (characters) They use de0 not ed0 de0 is for the DEC ethernet cards (Dec Chipset) PCI bus assigns the port and IO for the card which then in turn the kernel reads the information from the system at boot time. You will find that you have much better luck using de0 for most PCI Ethernet cards. Matt
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