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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!heron.Stanford.EDU!yue From: yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! NetBSD doesn't recognize my ethernet card! Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:54:50 GMT Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department, CA USA Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4floja$t6j@Radon.Stanford.EDU> References: <4fj0no$dac@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fkjvp$c7f@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <4fll8g$btc@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: heron.stanford.edu In article <4fll8g$btc@sundog.tiac.net>, Rick Kelly <rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com> wrote: >Frank van der Linden (frank@fwi.uva.nl) wrote: >: yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) writes: >: >I bought a new NE2000 compatible ISA ethernet card to run NetBSD 1.1. >: >NetBSD itself was installed fine, but it just doesn't recognize the >: >ethernet card. According to the installation note, if a NE2000 >: >compatible card (ed0) is configured to use I/O address 0x280, IRQ 2 >: >and memory address 0xd000, it'll be recognized, but 0x280 isn't one of >: >the available I/O addresses on my card (only 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, and >: >0x360), so how do I ask NetBSD to use the default 0x300 on my card? > >: The default installation kernels recognize your family of ethernet cards >: at the following addresses: > >: ed0 at isa? port 0x280 iomem 0xd0000 irq 9 # WD/SMC, 3C503, and NE[12]000 >: ed1 at isa? port 0x250 iomem 0xd8000 irq 9 # ethernet cards >: ed2 at isa? port 0x300 iomem 0xcc000 irq 10 > >: So it looks like picking the values in the last line should work for you. > >On my i386 NetBSD boxes I just changed the ed0 line to match the settings >of the card, and then rebuilt the kernel. Works like a champ. Huh? Are these parameters hard-coded into the kernel? Why? Except for the hard drive parameters (for an obvious reason), shouldn't all these hardware parameters be stored in a configuration file, and NetBSD looks at this file when it boots? If such a file doesn't exist, or if the data in it are invalid, fine, just use the defaults. If all these parameters are really hard-coded into the kernel, how do I rebuilt the kernel? Don't tell me I need the sources, as I'll have to scramble to find some floppy disks and carefully putting all the different distribution sets on them, like what I did with the binary distributions, because I can't transfer the sources directly into the hard drive without an ethernet connection! Sorry if I sound mean, but this is really a brain-dead design if these parameters are hard-coded into the kernel. Ken