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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.109.159.3!news.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Can't use net cards upon install Message-ID: <E8ADwr.6B2@ora.de> Organization: Verlag O'Reilly References: <334813C6.D23@intermind.com> <slrn5kglbc.avt.grr@shandakor.tharsis.com> <33487F26.6F7@intermind.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:19:39 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5773 In <33487F26.6F7@intermind.com> Steve Mushero <mushero@intermind.com> writes: >> You might want to check that the addresses and interrupts on the cards >> are set up to match what's specified in the installation notes. Hardware >> jumpers perferred, but if the card only has soft config, you might have >> to set that up with a dos utility. Also check i/f selection if there's >> a choice of thin-wire/aui/tp, etc. >We've played with this a bit - the cards are soft config and seem to be >detected by the kernal on boot. Then the most likely cause for this is that the interrupt configured on the NE2000s doesn't match what the kernel reports. Do you have the cards configured for IRQ 9 (or IRQ 2 that's an alias for IRQ 9)? -- Christoph Badura Now available in print: Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code http://www.peer-to-peer.com/