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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kingston 10/BT Cards
Date: 27 Jun 1996 06:18:13 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
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In <31CF3EAF.352C@nfx.com>, Ronen Bose <bose@nfx.com> writes:
>I'm trying to install 2.1.0 FreeBSD on a Gateway 2000 486/66.
>
>I have a Kingston 10/BT ethernet card with I/O 0x300, IRQ 12
>and DMA 6. I'm using a floppy to boot the system and it doesn't
>seem to recognize my LAN card. I've tried all the listed 
>combinations from the -c visual setup config. No luck yet.

One possibility, I don't know though:

The original NE2000 only did IRQ 2,3,4,5 and didn't do DMA.  Perhaps
your Kingston card is configured in some weird manner.