Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:07:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Kayak and very slow NE2100 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210190633.29893K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.980210001317.9612B-100000@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Martin Jangowski wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > Check interrupts, make sure there's no conflict. Are you sure the NE2100 > > probes correctly as a Lance? I have a stack of these cards that I'd love > > to borrow from Housing if they work under lance. > > Since the card says absolute nothing about it's contents (and HP just says > "It works with NiceTry, so what?"), I'm happy the GENERIC-Kernel > identifies it as Lance-based NE2100. However, I suspect a IRQ problem, > too. Unfortunately, I can't find out what IRQ is used by the network part > of the card... the SCSI-controller is PCI and gets assigned automagically, > but the ethernet part? I don't understand the line in the kernel > config-file completely, but it seems to me, that there is a fixed IRQ for > the card. If this IRQ is different from the (automagically assigned?) IRQ > for the hardware, this problems could result. For ISA cards, the interrupt is set by you. You need to use the card's setup utility to assign it free resources, then config FreeBSD to match the resources you set. PCI avoids this problem. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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