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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: 3c503 AUI support?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.010018.6852@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Aug26.051010.18443@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 01:00:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.051010.18443@ctr.columbia.edu> vikki@e40-008-9.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
- >Hi!
- >
- > Is anyone using a 3c503 ethernet adapter with the AUI port rather than
- >the coax connector? Our whole net is 10BT. I know that when using a 3c503
- >card in a Novell Netware server you have to explicitly tell the o/s to use the
- >AUI port if that's your configuration. Since I seem to be getting notthing but
- >silence from my 3c503 and 386BSD on our 10BT LAN, I figure that the kernel is
- >assuming the connection to the LAN is via the coax port. Anyone have any tips?
- >
-
- Minor device number. Remknod the ethernet device. From the sources
- (at /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/isa/if_ec.c):
-
- * Since I couldn't really think of any non-creative way (other than
- * using a #define) of configuring the board to use the onboard xceiver,
- * I kludged the isa_device->unit to contain this information. Simply
- * put, if bit-7 of isa_device->unit is set (>127) then the driver
- * configures that unit to onboard-xceiver (BNC) and if <128 it assumes
- * AUI. ec_attach informs the user of this on bootup. Also, ec_probe
- * repairs this bit after obtaining it's information since I didn't know
- * what else within the depths of the kernel would freak out if I left it.
-
- re mknod it with bit 7 off.
-
- Use the source, luke.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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