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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro and built in Ethernet
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 09:24:10 +0000
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James Card wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten the lance (lnc0) driver to work
> at all with the Ethernet controller that comes with
> the Compaq Deskpro series?
> 
> I am running 2.2-960801-SNAP and have set the IRQ (11)
> and IO (1080) as reported by the -v option on boot-up.
> The ethernet address is recognized during boot but
> initialization fails when the interface is setup.
> 

Make sure that the *card* is set to the port and IRQ reported. At
bootup, the IRQ is not checked; the report indicates only the IRQ the
system will expect. I'm using lnc0 successfully on an NE2100 clone
mounted in my gateway/server box, so the driver itself works. I am using
2.1R, but I haven't heard of any changes to this driver in the SNAPs.
-- 
Ken

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