Subject: Re: Installation problem
To: Chris Rupnik <chrisr@geeknet.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/08/1998 01:15:39
> Hi
>  I have an old 486 that i am trying to install NetBSD-1.3.2 on,
>  the machine has a wd8003E card in it. During the install, no matter
> what IRQ is jumpered on the card, it is always reported as IRQ 9, and
> thus does not work (we0 device timeout)
> 
>  Is there something that i should be doing differently, besides buying
> another card?

The kernel in the install distribution is compiled with irq 9 hard wired
for we0, as it says in the INSTALL doc...

To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
be configured as follows:

<other devices cut out>

SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
                we0     0x280   9               iomem 0xd0000
                we1     0x300   10              iomem 0xcc000

Is there a reason why you can't configure your card this way? The other
solution is to use a different kernel which I could build for you.

	- Joel