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From: rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Interupt at  irq 11 missing
Date: 9 Apr 1997 20:45:05 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
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> I have a 3com 509 and cannot get it to work correctly. Does BSDI require
> that the ethernet card be irq 11? It is set for 10 as 11 will cause a
> conflict with another piece of hardware.
>
> I get this error on boot and also when I am using ifconfig. Does anyone
> have an idea about this error??

I had the same problem with 3.0 and a 3C509.  I used 3Com's DOS utility
to set the IRQ to 10, but then I had to stop the BSD/OS 3.0 boot and enter

	-dev ef0 irq=10
	-start -

I also had to put that dev command above into /etc/default.boot.

	Rich Stevens