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From: ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ix0: doesn't want to work, anyone else had any luck?
Date: 21 Jun 1995 00:48:59 GMT
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Robert Watson (rwatson@clark.net) wrote:
: I used softset2 to configured the IO Port and IRQ, but didn't see any 
: place in the software to set the mapped memory address.  We run softset2 
: on a 286 beside our freebsd system because softset2 freezes on the 
: freebsd system (apparently it doesn't like SMC cards in large numbers 
: ;).  We couldn't use softset (1) because it wouldn't run on the 286 (AST).

Get SOFT16.EXE from ftp.intel.com:/pub/PCandNetworkSupport/EtherExpress

Under that version of SOFTSET, select Manual Configuration.  Setting
mapped RAM memory is an option on that menu.  Set it for 32K @ D000H.

--
Carl Harris
EXECUTIVE Scapegoat (and Systems Engineer)
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
ceharris@cs.vt.edu