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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.cybercom.net!usenet From: umar@cybercom.net (Rob Landry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Ethernet cards and NetBSD 1.1 Date: 20 Jan 1996 01:25:29 GMT Organization: The United State of America Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4dpga9$ool@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial3-14.cybercom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 Presently the only Ethernet card I can get NetBSD to acknowledge is an old WD8003E 8-bit card. More recent 16-bit SMC cards don't work; NetBSD claims they are jumpered for IRQ9 when in fact they are jumpered for IRQ10, which is what the kernel seems to want. The installation notes say NetBSD 1.1 supports the Intel EtherExpress 16 card, but my system won't recognize one. So right now I'm stuck with the 8-bit card as my only Ethernet option. I'm thinking I'll use it for now, then when my network ISDN connection to the Internet gets installed I'll FTP the source files and try to build a new kernel with ed2 configured for IRQ9, and try the 16-bit SMC card again. Does anyone have any better suggestions? Rob Landry umar@cybercom.net