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- From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] BUG in 0.1/0.2: How to configure IRQ on NE1000 boards?
- Message-ID: <ellis.728080428@nova>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
- References: <1k1oafINNrl4@smurf.sti.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:33:48 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- dgreen@sti.com (Dan R. Greening) writes:
-
- >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.
- >--
- >____
- >\ /Dan Greening Software Transformation 1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, #100
- > \/dgreen@sti.com (408) 973-8081 x313 Cupertino, CA 95014
-
- Isn't the brain-damaged Intel-DOS architecture fun? IRQ 9 is the cascaded
- interrupt that is chosen on an AT bus machine when you select the IRQ jumper
- location labelled 2 on the network or other bus cards. You should really
- think twice before getting on your high horse and lecturing people about
- what *ought* to be if you do not even know enough about the architecture to
- know that.
-
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