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From: Wee-San Lee <wlee@alcor.usc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI can't recognize NE2000 Ethernet card
Date: 19 Apr 1996 03:12:53 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Geert Jan de Groot wrote:

> NE2000 cards can be made to work fairly easy. You did not explain what
> your problem is, so people can't help.

	Well, my problem was that when I boot from BSDI installation 
disk, my REAL NE2000 Ethernet card can't be recognized.  Instead, pe0 and 
xir0 are shown on screen.  I was told by techical support that the port #
of NE2000 has to be set to 0x320 but I found no switch or jumper on the 
card.  I even rebuilt the kernel and turned off pe0 and xir0.  I ended 
up having nothing.

	I was trying to 'mknod' a ne device by myself and consulted the 
major and minor number of ne device from technical support.  However, I 
was told that it doesn't work out.  Maybe one of you could give me the 
numbers so that I could have a try, at least!

	Thanks. 
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