Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:30:50 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed0 recognized as ed1 Message-ID: <199912292030.VAA12296@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Arcady Genkin wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> I have a PCI NE2000 compatible card. In kernel config file I just
> specified "device ed0". However, at boot time the card gets recognized
> as "ed1". It works properly if configured as "ed1".
That's perfectly normal. Just use ed1. No reason to worry.
The ed driver traditionally was for ISA cards only (NE2k clones
and others). It was later extended to work for so-called PCI
NE2k clones, too. When you have "device ed0" in your kernel
config file, it will reserve "ed0" for an ISA card. So when it
finds a PCI card, it will get the nex free slot assigned, which
is "ed1". Later it tries to probe for ed0 (ISA), but doesn't
find one (unless you also happen to have an ISA NE2k card); it
then prints "ed0 not found at 0x280" or something similar (may-
be only during a verbose boot, though).
I think the behaviour was changed recently (in -current?), so
your first ed device will always be 0, no matter whether ISA or
PCI.
Regards
Oliver
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