Re: ASDG EB920 ethernet

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> On Mon Feb 16 04:33:00 1998, Alex J Scotti wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> >   I have an ASDG EB920 ethernet card (the one with the ROM address) and am
> > trying to get it to work in netbsd.  The ethernet card has a jumper for
> > interrupt 2 or 6.  Unfortunately, my A3000 refuses to boot when the jumper
> > is on 2, so my only option is 6.  Under ADOS, this is no problem - I just
> > use the SANAII driver for interrupt 6 and everything works fine.  However,
> > in netbsd, a man 4 ed doesnt seem to indicate any way of switching 
> > interrupts.
> > Which interrupt should the card be in to work with the netbsd?  Currently,
> > if I try to ifconfig ed0, my machine hangs.  Any ideas?
> 
> You have to change a 2 to a 6 in the kernel source tree and to compile a
> new kernel. The interrupt is hardcoded into the kernel.
> 
> Change in /usr/src/sys/arch/amiga/dev/if_ed.c in line 282 from:
> [you have to addjust /usr to where ever you untar the sys tarfiles to]
> 
> sc->sc_isr.isr_ipl = 2;
> 
> to:
> 
> sc->sc_isr.isr_ipl = 6;
> 
> Then do this [assuming that you are now in the arch/amiga/dev directory]:
> 
        Ouch.. could this not be factored out into something on the attach
        line in the kernel config file?

                David/absolute

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