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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with EtherExpress card and Meta-key Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:54:28 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 40 Message-ID: <32485894.1E31@www.play-hookey.com> References: <5289cg$pa8@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3247D4B9.421F@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Steve Gailey wrote: > > 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 Very true. The bootup report does not check the IRQ; just reports what it is set to. You don't have to delete FreeBSD or install DOS to hard drive. Just boot DOS from floppy and then run softset from floppy. Softset will force a reboot when it's done. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |