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From: bfriedma@jarok.cs.ohiou.edu (Boris A. Friedman)
Subject: help on making netbsd1.1 recognize my Intel EtherExpress network card
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I need some "$Subject". I'm installing NetBSD 1.1 on a Pentium P5-133
(Gateway 2000) with 16 bit Intel EtherExpress. The install guide
doesn't say whether netbsd supports it, but I presumed it does since
it's a fairly standard card. So, first I tried to boot it without
changing any settings, and of course it didn't see the card. Then I
used a dos utility softset.exe designed for those cards, and dos sees
the card just fine, and I could even set irq, io port and iomem.
Unfortunately, netbsd doesn't see the iomem settings that I set from
dos. To give an example, the install guide suggests to set

name  port  irq    iomem
ed0   0x280  2    0xd0000.

I set port and iomem to those values (wouldn't let me set irq to 2),
but netbsd complains that
ed0 kernel configured iomem 0xd0000 != board configured 0xfffff.

Same thing happens if I set io port to 0x250 (netbsd complains about
ed1). If I set it as ie0, netbsd doesn't seem to see it at all (all it
says is "ie0: unknown AT&T board type", but I think it says that with
any card).

Any suggestions will be appreciated. I need to get it to work as soon
as possible.

Thanks.
Boris.