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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news4.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! NetBSD doesn't recognize my ethernet card! Date: 12 Feb 1996 06:11:32 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4fnhqk$kfm@cynic.portal.ca> References: <4fj0no$dac@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fkjvp$c7f@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <4fll8g$btc@sundog.tiac.net> <4floja$t6j@Radon.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <4floja$t6j@Radon.Stanford.EDU>, Kenneth C. Yue <yue@heron.Stanford.EDU> wrote: >Huh? Are these parameters hard-coded into the kernel? Why? Yes indeed they are. Putting the I/O address and interrupt used by your disk controller into a file doesn't do you much good when you need to initialise your disk controller to access the file. The same goes for network cards, because otherwise you can't run a diskless workstation. >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! Why don't you just temporarially change the port and IRQ on your Ethernet card? cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.