Hi
 Thanks so much for everyone advice. Thing is, this card cannot be set
to anything higher than irq 7. If there would be anyone kind enough to
generate for me one that would have irq of your choice hardwired, that
would be fantastic!
 
 Chris

http://weeble.tower.wayne.edu/jumpers/wd_8003.html



On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Chris Rupnik wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, the generic kernel has we0 hardwired to IRQ9. If you can't set the
> card to IRQ 9 for some reason, use IRQ10, port 0x300, iomem 0xcc000. 
> The card will then show up as we1.
> 
>