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From: dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca (Dennis S. Breckenridge)
Subject: Re: 3com 3c503 driver for 386BSD
References: <2ddlhtINNfbe@retriever.cs.umbc.edu>
Organization: "Alchemy Mindworks"
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 15:43:16 GMT
Message-ID: <CHD507.Bur@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca>
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odysseas@cs.umbc.edu (Odysseas Pentakalos) writes:

>		I just installed 386BSD on my PC and I am having
>	a problem with it recognizing my ethernet card. I have a
>	3Com 3c503 Etherlink II set to port 0x250, irq 2 and
>	iomem 0xd8000 as the installation instructions specify, but
>	I get a shared memory conflict error upon boot-up. I got
>	the source code and I tried changing the port number and

Try changing the memory map address. From the error you describe the 
iomem is overlaying some other device (probably your video card)
If you are running an adaptec SCSI controller try moving it's bios
address as well.
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Dennis Breckenridge          Microsoft Windoze. Genetic throwback from the 
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