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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
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Subject: Re: Installing An ISA Sync/570i
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, John Abel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently downloaded FreeBSD5, for it's support of Digi boards,
> specifically the ISA based Sync/570.  However, now that I've got it
> installed, it seems to have not detected the board.  I've checked the
> board with it's diagnostic disk, and it is setup with a correct
> IRQ/memory settings, yet the install doesn't seem to have installed the
> driver (the only ar files are in the src directories).
>
> I've been going through compiling a new kernel, but after adding the
> line from the ar man page,
>
> device          ar0                     at isa? port 0x300 irq 5 iomem
> 0xd0000
>
> the config produces "devices with zero units are not likely to be
> correct".

just add:

	device	ar

if you like to give a "hint" to your kernel, add it to the file:
/boot/device.hints .  Read the man page for device.hints(5)

>
> Has someone any notes on installing one of these boards with FreeBSD5?
> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>

man device.hints

> Regards
>
> John
>
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