On Thu, 11 May 2000, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 06:41:47AM -0400, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jaume Samperiz wrote:
> > 
> > BTW - are you sure it's ne1?  Usually if you have a single ne card in
> > there, it should show up as ne0, but it may be something I've never run
> > across before...
> > 
> > > 2) Trying to configure the ne1 interface with things like:
> > > 
> > >      *** ifconfig ne1 inet 10.0.0.1 arp netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> No, he's probably correct. 
> 
> The GENERIC kernel hardwires ne0 and ne1 to different port/irq combinations.
> The other attachments for ne2000-compatible cards start at ne2 and go up.
> For example, my pcmcia ne2000 card always shows up as ne2 but my
> ISA ne2000 is ne1.

Cool - do any other cards do that?  It sounds like most ISA cards
would, but I'm guessing -  most of my experience is with PCI cards...

Thanks for the tidbit.

-Jon
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