"Just mildly annoying" - you could compile a custom kernel
	with support for only the hardsare and drivers you need, which
	would then renumber it back to ep0 (in addition to being smaller
	and faster).

		David/absolute

             -=-  Sue me, screw me, walk right through me  -=-

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Alex wrote:

> I just installed NetBSD 1.3.1 onto a machine with one ethernet card,
> an Etherlink XL PCI 3c900-TPO.  The install kernel on the floppy
> detected it and created /mnt/etc/ifconfig.ep0. When I boot the machine
> from the newly-installed generic kernel on the HD, it detects (extra line
> breaks/indentation added for clarity):
> 
> May  9 14:13:41 wirth /netbsd: ep1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: 3Com 
>         3C900 Ethernet
> May  9 14:13:41 wirth /netbsd: ep1: MAC address 00:10:4b:2f:50:dc
> May  9 14:13:41 wirth /netbsd: ep1: 8KB word-wide FIFO, (undefined) 
>         Rx:Tx split, utp default utp, autoselect
> May  9 14:13:41 wirth /netbsd: ep1: interrupting at irq 10
> 
> Why does the generic kernel detect it as ep1 instead of ep0?  Is
> this a problem, or just mildly annoying?
> 
> ---Alex
> 
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