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- From: dgreen@sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386BSD] BUG in 0.1/0.2: How to configure IRQ on NE1000 boards?
- Message-ID: <1k1oafINNrl4@smurf.sti.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:07:11 GMT
- Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
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- I have 386BSD 0.1 running on my little 386, my initial kernel is from
- dist.fs-patchkit-0.2, though dist.fs works the same way. Unfortunately
- I cannot get it to run correctly on the NE1000 or NE2000 boards that
- I have tried.
-
- Each time it comes up with
-
- ne0 ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx at 0x300 irq 9 on isa
-
- The xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx comes up with the correct number. 0x300 is right.
- The IRQ number is crazy because ne1000 and ne2000 boards from Novell CANNOT
- be set to IRQ 9. The default is IRQ 3, which is what we leave it at in
- every 386 we have (and we have tons).
-
- Is there a way to configure 386bsd to default to IRQ 3 for NE 1000/2000
- boards? I have the bindist, and after hunting around I think that bindist
- doesn't come with configuration files (at least not where "man config"
- tells me they should be).
-
- Can you give me a way to patch the kernel to stick the NE1000/2000 at IRQ 3?
- Could someone actually fix this in the next release so at least the IRQ
- number used is feasible? (Really you *ought* to put the NEx000 at IRQ 3
- address 0x300, where it is set at the factory.) As far as I'm concerned,
- this is a bug (and a very annoying one, at that, since you can't use the
- network to download the rest of your distribution).
-
- Thanks for your help.
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