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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) Subject: Re: setting up 3c503 Message-ID: <david.715669331@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.) References: <0edeipG00WBK47QEVF@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Sep 92 05:02:11 GMT Lines: 34 aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore) writes: >I need some help getting my 3c503 card to work with 386bsd. bsd finds >it on bootup (lists the ec0 device driver). However, I think that the >kernel is configured to use the BNC port instead of the AUI port. I got >mail from someone telling me to make the minor number of the device >(/dev/ec0 i assume) less then 127, but I don't know the major number. I >have done a bit of pokeing around in the kernel sources, but haven't >found anything (device.i386 doesn't list it). >The card does work from dos (using pc/tcp 2.05), so I know it isn't a >hardware problem. The 3c503 (which i used to use. Now I use a wd8003e) requires a jumper to be set to place a memory buffer in RAM. You *MUST* make sure that 1) You have the RAM BASE IO enabled 2) You have it configured to the address that 386BSD *expects* it to be. for (1) you look at the card. For (2) you read the INSTALL.NOTES and look for the table describing the device configurations. As for using the AUI. I dont know, but there has been a bit of discussion here. Cheers. >thanks, >alex -- David Le Blanc : Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3.