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From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
Subject: Re: SMC Elite Ultra and FreeBSD
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.170057.21276@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 17:00:55 +0000
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In article <2hbmv8$plq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> centauri@pound.cs.tu-berlin.de (centauri) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>       ed0: kernel configured irq 5 doesn't match board configured irq 11
>
>   The card is configured on IRQ 5 but for some reason FreeBSD doesn't
>   want to know :-(
>
>   Does someone have seen this problem before? How did you get around it?
>
>Well, we almost have the same problem, but on a linux-machine.
>In the docs on "HOW-TO"-Network the programmer of the device-driver for the
>Ethernetcard wrote, that there are some differences between normale W8013
>and the Ultra-Plus card, so one would need a new driver, which is not writen
>jet. He wrote, that there were efforts made by some people, but that they
>are not finished jet.

Don't know about the Ultra Plus but the Ultra card is an 8216 card not 8013,
nevertheless the ed driver *does* support it. The ed driver supports many
cards and not just the 8013's. You should contact David Greenman, who wrote
it and discuss the problem with him. If it's not probing the Ultra-Plus
properly then I'm sure he'd want to know. You should be able to contact him
at davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, if he's set up his mail forwarding properly, if
that fails send mail for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
should cont

-- 
  Paul Richards, 
  Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff
  Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk,  JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@UK.AC.CARDIFF