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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with EtherExpress card and Meta-key Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:31:53 +0100 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3247D4B9.421F@metrosol.demon.co.uk> References: <5289cg$pa8@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Frank Hohenschuh wrote: > I have some problems installing FreeBSD at my company. > > - We have an EtherExpress 16 network card installed. The kernel > finds it at address 0x300 and irq 3, but exits after booting > with a "trap 12, page fault at virtual address ..." and reboots. > irq 3 also collides with syscon on irq 3. You are much better off putting it at IRQ 10 or some other place harmless > The hardware-readme mentions to specify a start address of 0xd000 > and an amount of 32k, using the program "softset.exe". I already > specified these parameters after booting with "-c". > Do I also need to run this "softset"? And is there a similar Unix > program, or do I have to delete BSD, install DOS, run the program > and install BSD again? You must run softset first to tell the board what your OS expects. I am afraid that you will have to run this under DOS. Booting with -c wont talk to the board unless the parameters you put in agree with those the board has stored. Steve