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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] WD8003E card doesn't work
Date: 9 Dec 1992 14:40:16 GMT
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Message-ID: <1g50ggINNnqi@life.ai.mit.edu>
References: <1992Dec8.144009@cs.utwente.nl> <ByysM0.3M9@chinet.chi.il.us>
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Keywords: ethernet, 386BSD, WD8003E


In article <ByysM0.3M9@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy
Suess) writes:
>
> Either change the interrupt in your SYSTEMNAME file in
> /usr/src/sys.*/i386/conf to something other than 2, or remove the
> other ethernet card definitions in the same file.  Recompile the
> kernel, and all works.  Same thing applies to the ne2000 driver.

Unfortunately for most people, that presents a chicken-and-egg problem.
How does one recompile the kernel if he/she needs the ethernet card to
download the sources?

I ended up running a Z-modem transfer overnight, but this is severely
suboptimal.

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