From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 13:06:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA14116 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14111 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12305; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:06:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id PAA16730; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:05:40 -0500 Message-ID: <19970911150539.35425@right.PCS> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:05:39 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: rfg@monkeys.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I fix the ethernet card I/O address (?) References: <22956.874005242@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <22956.874005242@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Sep 09, 1997 at 12:14:02PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sep 09, 1997 at 12:14:02PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > During the hardware configuration part of the install, I screwed up > and failed to adjust the I/O address for my Ethernet card (a simple > NE2000 compatible). I _did_ properly set the IRQ for the card, but > sadly, I left the base I/O address set to 0x280 for FreeBSD, and the > card itself is actually set to address 0x300. > > So can somebody please tell me how to fix the base I/O address for the > card in FreeBSD? I imagine this must be simple to do, but I haven't > a clue as to how to do it. I tried re-entering the menu-based install > stuff, but I couldn't manage to navigate to anywhere that looked like > it was going to allow me to change this. 1. reboot, and specify the '-c' flag at the boot: prompt. This should drop you into the visual configuration editor. 2. select your network card, hit [Enter] to edit the device parameters, and change your port address to 0x300. -- Jonathan