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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Configuring a FreeBSD LAN? Date: 9 Jun 1995 08:56:09 -0700 Organization: This old house in Montreal Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3r9qup$b4r@crl.crl.com> References: <3qtm0r$dtr@news.primenet.com> <3r16mn$fo0@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3r84tq$182@news4.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com In article <3r84tq$182@news4.primenet.com>, Dennis Anfield <halastr@usr2.primenet.com> wrote: > >: One can consider this being an inconsistency, but network devices do >: not have /dev entries in BSD. Simply try to run ifconfig with the > >Sorry, I ment to say that they are not recognized at bootup. I have since >been shown the reason why, but now have a different sort of problem. My >cards are only detectable (atleast as DOS is concerned) on irq 2 dma 3. >I have compiled the kernel before so I have no qualms about doing it again, >but I need to know the proper way to address dma channels in FreeBSD. I >can change the irq to 2 (which bsd will change to 9, I'm sure) but what about >dma channels? Anybody know? Thanks in advance! > >Dennis Anfield >halastr@primenet.com > It depends on which model of the 3c503 that you have, If you have the 3c503 8Bit.. I think that everything is set via hardware jumpers on the board, In the 3c503/16 the mem address i/o is set via jumpers be memory mode and dma mode is set from eeprom, or via software... To reset the eeprom you can download 3c503.exe [ a self-extracting executable DOS] from ftp.3com.com and use a dos boot floppy and then run the diagnostic program.. It will run you through a set of menus where you can set the s/w parameters into the eeprom. gary :-)