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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1944 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1749 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.eecs.uic.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!wheaton.wheaton.edu!not-for-mail From: johnh@wheaton (John) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: NetBSD-0.9 help request IBM ethernet ISA-10BaseT board Date: 21 Dec 1993 00:24:59 -0600 Organization: Wheaton College, Wheaton IL Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2f64rr$n00@wheaton.wheaton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wheaton.wheaton.edu Keywords: IBM Dear *BSD people, I am trying to get a IBM PS/ValuePoint computer (ISA bus) up with an IBM ISA-10BbaseT board. From reading the documentation (what little there was) on the board it indicates that it will work with Novell's NE-2000 driver (provided you use IRQ 3). Based on that I attempted to configure the card as though it were a NE-2000 board. There was at least one problem in that the default IRQ documentent in the INSTALL notes for NetBSD-0.9 was 2 and the configuration for the board did not allow for 2. I had noticed that the IRQ for an SMC WD board on another machine was set to 2 but showed up as 9. I configured the board at IRQ 9. In looking at a header file it appears that IRQ9 and IRQ2 are equated to each other. I also set the IO address to 300. On booting the operating system reports: ne0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 9 on isa ne0: ne2000 ethernet address 08:00:5a:6b:85:57 The system seems to see the board at the correct IO place and sees the correct IRQ. It apparently recognizes the board as a ne2000 board. The eithernet address reported is the correct eithernet address for the board. When I ifconfig ne0 192.138.89.141 - no error comes back When I ifconfig ne0 - It reports the network interface up along with the other normal stuff. So far so good. However when I ftp to another place (via IP number on the same network) I get nothing. When I ping from another place to this IP number I get nothing. Has anyone had better luck in getting the IBM ISA 10BaseT board to work in *BSD enviornment? Any suggestions on changing the IRQ number on the board and in the kernal? (As far as I can see there are no IRQ conflicts when it boots). Any other pointers or suggestions? Please E-mail to johnh@wheaton.edu (I think our news poster does not have the correct path to just do a reply). Thanks in advance, johnh...