Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:40:54 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: chad@anasazi.com Cc: se@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI ethernet Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970314144053.00a47100@dimaga.com>
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At 12:34 AM 3/13/97 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: [FreeBSD on Compaq Prosignia 300] >So I commandeered them. I tried to load (the then-current) FreeBSD >2.1.5, but it had the same problem. No disk. On the odd chance that >someone had made progress on that front, I downloaded the boot floppy >from the 2.2-beta, which =did= find the disk. So, I proceeded to do a >network install of 2.2-beta for practice. > >I got my 2.1.7-RELEASE CD-ROM in the mail Monday. I was curious if the >disk controller code had migrated into the stable tree, so I made a boot >floppy from the CD. I was pleased to see that it succeeded in finding >the disk drive and the CD-ROM drive as well. So I proceeded to blow >away the 2.2 stuff and reload the whole machine from the CD. Since this >machine is headed into a production role, I feel better with the >"stable" world for it. This is not the disk controller code. This is a two-line change to the PCI detection code to be able to handle PCI 2.0. In fact, by migrating one of the PCI files from -current (I don't remember which one) you've been able to make this work since 2.1.0. (I ran 2.1.0 on a Prosignia 500) >Unfortunately, I had failed to notice that although 2.1.7 now handles >the SCSI controller, it does not handle the PCI ethernet adapter. >Bummer. No network. > >So, here's the question. How hard would it be to put the PCI ethernet >code from 2.2 into 2.1.7? Would that be loonie in light of my desire >for stability? You don't want this. You want to add the following line to the config file for your kernel: device lnc1 at isa? port 0x7000 net irq 3 drq 0 vector lncintr Feel free to ask if you have any more problems; I'm running it successfully (albeit without ASR - I'll see if I can do something about that :) Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org
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