So the same card worked under the same netbsd kernel on the 386?

	Hmm - have you tried chaning the card settings to match ed1 or ed2
	in the NetBSD/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC file?

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On Tue, 20 May 1997, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> ok, the 486 EISA machine now boots NetBSD off of the hard drive.  everything
> seems to work real spiffy except the ethernet card.  constantly getting a
> device timeout for ed0.  ed0 appears to be setup correcty.
> 
> just as something to know, this HDD was in a 386 with an adaptec SCSI host.
> i got NetBSD mostly setup and descided to wait until i got the 486 EISA
> motherboard and BusLogic controller to continue setting up NetBSD as the
> 386 is currently my gateway (running Linux, this 486 will replace that machine)
> and it was real hard to do anything without my gateway being fully operational.
> when it was on the 386 it had the same ethernet controller (SMC) as it has
> now, (well, different on physically, but same setup) the only thing that is
> different is the BusLogic card versus the Adaptec card, and the fact that
> my main bus is now EISA instead of ISA.  i'd like to get this working so i
> can compile a custom kernel and get on with things.  i'd really like to get
> this system fully setup and would apprieciate any help.  thanks.
> 
> -brian
> 
> ps: also, thanks to all of you who helped me get the EISA configured so i
> can get as far as i am now instead of staring at a machine that didn't know
> anything about itself.
> 
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