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- From: esw@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric S. Wallace)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386BSD] Ethernet problem
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 05:59:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- I'm trying to install 386 BSD via the internet, only Tiny BSD 386
- won't recognize my ethernet card on bootup. The card is a Cabletron
- configured to IRQ9, port 0x280. So I guess my basic questions are,
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- a) Does anyone know if this card will even work? (I have no idea if
- Cabletron is a "clone" of a supported card or not.)
- b) What criteria does 386 BSD use to determine if a card is present?
- Failing meeting this criteria, is there anyway to "fool" BSD into
- putting the driver on anyway? The reason I ask this is because even
- booting on DOS, the packet driver complains about a possible IRQ
- conflict (a game port, now disabled) and babbles about an 8-bit bus,
- which it never did on any other IRQ. I don't know if any of these
- warnings might relate to BSD not recognizing the card.
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- Thanks in advance,
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- Eric Wallace
- wallace@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu
- esw@po.cwru.edu
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