Subject: Re: Configuring ethernet board
To: Paul Hollow (3Y0) <ph-a@ugrad.cs.york.ac.uk>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/26/1996 12:57:56
	Does the card show up in the boot messages?
	Something like:
	'ed2 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff irq 9: ...'

	Does the card work under Dos/Windows?

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On Fri, 24 May 1996, Paul Hollow (3Y0) wrote:

> Hi y'all (again...)
> 
> I'm trying to get my new ethernet card to work, but i'm not having much luck.
> The card is a Kingston Technologies KNE2000LC, which is NE2000 compliant.
> Having defined the device ed2 in my kernel config (base address 300, IRQ 10)
> and recompiling the kernel, the system refuses to recognise the card.
> 
> When i try "ifconfig ed2 inet 1.2.3.4" i get an error msg something like
> "error: SIOCFFLAGS: device not configured".  I have also tried "MAKEDEV ed2"
> but i don;t think that ethernet devices have an entry in /dev (or am i wrong?).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Paul
> 
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