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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: network card & CD-ROM problems Date: 30 Nov 1996 16:56:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <57pp0o$2ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <57o7o5$e96@chuckie.apana.org.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E root@master.apana.org.au (Marc Dodsworth ) wrote: > The second problem is with an Accton PCI ethernet card. The card is NE2000 > compatible but uses an address of E000 and IRQ 12. Can I compile the kernel > to support the address or am I stuck on that one. NE2000 doesn't use shared memory at all. While it's possible to specify an IO memory address in the config statement of the `ed' driver, it will be silently ignored for an NE2000 clone. (Remember that the `ed' driver also handles e.g. SMC boards which _do_ have shared memory.) Of course, you don't need to compile a kernel if changing the IRQ is your only desire: boot with -c, and adjust the setting. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)