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- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] BUG in 0.1/0.2: How to configure IRQ on NE1000 boards?
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:28:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1HIJr.51@chinet.chi.il.us>
- References: <1k1oafINNrl4@smurf.sti.com>
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- In article <1k1oafINNrl4@smurf.sti.com> 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
- >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).
- >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).
-
- No it is not. I have ne2000's set for int 2 ( you DO know that
- int2 and int9 are the same thing?). int3 is a terrible int
- as it is normally used for com2, and port 300 is generaly used
- for tape drives. Novell was silly to use those as defaults.
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- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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