From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 21 7:50:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bne003m.webcentral.com.au (horizon3.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7ACC14D01 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:50:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre@telebot.net) Received: (qmail 8253 invoked from network); 21 Oct 1999 14:50:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.253.90) by horizon3.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 21 Oct 1999 14:50:18 -0000 Message-ID: <000d01bf1bd5$b1891bc0$5afd93cb@timberwolf> Reply-To: "Haikal Saadh" From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "David Wolfskill" Cc: References: <199910211358.GAA94920@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: [Q] NE2000 startup config Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 01:05:19 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: David Wolfskill To: Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:58 PM Subject: RE: [Q] NE2000 startup config > >From: "Peter McGarvey" > >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:27:47 +0100 > > >> I see that the kernel is expecting my network card > >> be at the address of x280 while my card is at x300. > >> I understand, that I could just configure the card to be at 280, > >> but I would like to investigate the possible options before doing that. > *snip* > I believe that a way for the original correspondent to address his > concern (no pun intended, honest!) would be to interrupt the "spinning > propeller" 10-second count-down during boot by pressing the space bar > once. Then, at the "boot> " prompt, enter "boot -c", which will allow > the same kind of configuration dialog that was provided for during the > install of FreeBSD. > > It should then be possible to select Network cards; from those, select > the NE2000(-compatible) ed0, then (in the lower part of the screen) > specify the low address in question (and optionally, the IRQ). > > Upon leaving this dialog, one will have the option to save the results; > I recommend doing this. ("Under the covers", this writes a file called > /boot/kernel.conf. It may be of interest to look at this file at some > point, though it's not necessary under most conditions.) > > The above-cited procedure is discussed on pp. 50-52 of the 2nd edition > of _The Complete FreeBSD_; especially p. 51. Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to recompile the kernel? > > Cheers, > david > -- > David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator > voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message