forwarding here as I don't know what else to suggest...

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 23:40:24 +0100 (CET)
From: vinosus@vengeance.et.tudelft.nl
Subject: Re: http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/isa.html


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 vinosus@vengeance.et.tudelft.nl wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > 
[netwoiking probs snipped]
> 
> It looks like for the ether express/16, the INSTALL kernel is set to:
> ix0     at isa? port 0x300 irq 10               # EtherExpress/16

hrm seems i was so angry i got my facts wrong
(irq 0x10, pfft)
well it's been a few days and retried a few things. still no install tho.

i tried 0x300, irq 10 and 0xD0000, no boot rom (installed but disabled)
maybe i tried the other setting too, 0x360 with irq 9, but i don't remeber
that (ie0)
panics with 
ix0: i82586_intr: $BIGNUM spurious interrupts
this line repeats for $INFINITY lines with $BIGNUM rising

next i tried a de205 wich works fine under dos (as does the ee/16)
but found the installation disk didn't undersupport it

ok, recovery: tried an original Novell NE1000
INSTALL.txt says NE1000 or NE2000 can be at
ne0	0x280	9
ne1	0x300	10
the NE1000 can be configured at irq 2 wich will be remapped to irq 9 but
it can't do 10 (being an 8 bit card), AND ir can do 0x300 but not 0x280
*sigh*
next step was an original Novell NE2000, wich happened to ahve the same
problem. it's 16-bit allright but the jumpers simply don't supportirq 10 
or address 0x280

next tries were two wd8003e[pb] cards, wich turned out to be dead.
(note wd8003 cards have more configuration options but still can't do irq 10)

> so you'll want to set up the card this way.
> 
> This was from /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL.  Which although you
> don't have since you didn't install yet, can found on the web as well via
> the cvs-web interface.
i'm too new to NetBSD to think of that, besides i expect somehow
files supplied in /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.1/i386 to be somewhat up to date
&& consistent. maybe it's asking too much but that is what i do :)

> Hope this helps
> -Dan
at least it is reassuring to get a reply. thanks for that.
but i have really run out of nics now. it would be nice if the
installation image wouldn't panic on my ee/16 or would support the DE205,
or anything else that would enable me to netinstall netbsd.