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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FYI: SMC Ultra Ethernet memory address confusion & hint Date: 29 Apr 1996 22:30:32 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4m3fu8$3db@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m1uv3$hj6@samba.rahul.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> writes: >When using an SMC Ultra Ethernet card, you will set its memory address >as a four-digit hex number, e.g.: cc00. However, you must add a >trailing zero to this when telling FreeBSD the memory address to use, >e.g., 0xcc000. Since it's an ``absolute address'', rather than the iNtel-like segment:offset crap. Note that 0xcc00:0 == 0xcbff:0x10 == 0xcbfe:0x20 etc. == 0xcc000. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)