Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress PRO/10+
To: Kevin Keyser <keyser@clio.rice.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/30/1998 10:12:47
On Jan 29, Kevin Keyser wrote
> I am having trouble getting NetBSD 1.3 to recognize an Intel
> Etherexpress PRO/10+ on my system (486/33/8M).
> 
> First, and according to the INSTALL file, I set the board's port to
> 0x360.  For the IRQ, INSTALL said "any"; I set it to 10.  In this case,
> when booting the install floppy, the device probe did not find iy0.
> 
> Then I went back and set the board IRQ to 7.  This time, the probe
> found it but said it expected IRQ 10.  I went on and configured the
> interface and it misbehaved in the way I would expect for a mismatched
> IRQ level (ie. can send echo requests but not get replies, ARP entry
> shows up OK on other nodes, etc.)
> [...]

Hum, make sure nothig else uses irq10. The board should show up whatever IRQ
it is set, unless this IRQ is used by another device.
I use here a etherexpress pro/10 (don't know if it is a 10+ or not,
I think it is) at irq10, it works. The chip on it is a "FA82595TX".

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