Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de> wrote on Sun, 22 Jul 2001
at 16:38:31 +0000 in <9jevi7$flh$5@colwyn.zhadum.de>:

> > i am trying to install NetBSD 1.5.1 on my system which has a ne1000 NIC at
> > 0x320 / IRQ 5.
> [...]
> > is there a way to pass the IRQ to the kernel beforehand?
> 
> No, that's a compile time switch.

While it is acompile time configuration item, you can change
during the installation process. Please follow the last
bullet from

  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#ne200-device-timeout

ideally, this will be better integrated into a future NetBSD release.

--jhawk