[725] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: Installing Netbsd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Feb 3 12:11:30 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:07:30 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: guardian@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[695] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
> My current ethernet card is an EtherLink II TP (3c503). I tried the
> recommend base addresses of 0x250, 0x280 and 0x300 - but none of
> them seemed to work. Any suggestions?
I believe the problem is that our kernel configurations lack a line
with iomem and irq unknown. As far as I can tell, the kernel is
capable of reading the IO address and IRQ off of the 3c503 card, but
checks them against the values in the configuration line and skips the
card if they don't match.
I've tweaked one of our kernels to have such a line for port 0x300
(look for an ed4 device). Try booting using the floppy image in
/mit/netbsd/dev/machine-specific/guardian/nfsother.fs. If you succeed
in installing, rather than letting the installation script reboot your
machine, quit to the shell prompt and ftp over (from ftp.dialup) the
file /afs/sipb/project/netbsd/dev/machine-specific/guardian/netbsd,
putting it in /mnt/netbsd. Then reboot with the "halt" command.
If this works, please send us mail, since we're going to be modifying
our kernel configurations soon.
