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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PnP network cards?
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:29:22 -0700
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One Kosher Pickle wrote:
> 
> I have a NE2000 compatible network card.  Sounds good so far, but it's
> Plug and Play (ugh).  It has absolutely NO dip switches.  I don't even
> know what exact IRQ it is because of this.  I get timeout messages when
> booting FreeBSD, and I'm stuck..  It is configured for the correct port
> address...but I'm not so sure about the IRQ.  Can somebody tell me how to
> find the IRQ out, without having to believe Windows 95?  Thanks for any
> ideas..

I think you're going to have to disable plug'n'play completely, and then 
use software to explicitly set what you want. Otherwise it can 
self-switch on you, which FBSD won't like.
-- 

Ken

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