FreeBSD 5.3 and ed0

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:29:27PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> Im trying to move from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3.
> When I used to install 3.x/4.x on this box, I would configure
> the network card during the install process.
> According to the manual, the device config part of the install,
> was taken out, but the network card doesnt get identified by FreeBSD 5.3.
> I tried selecting #6 during the install boot menu,
> and entered ->
> boot -c
> in the hopes to get the device config screen, but I didn't get that.
> Is it possible to get that pre FBSD 5.x device config screen,
> or is there some way to configure that network card during the install 
> process??

I believe you can set a hint variable from the loader prompt.  The
defaults are:

hint.ed.0.at="isa"
hint.ed.0.disabled="1"
hint.ed.0.port="0x280"
hint.ed.0.irq="10"
hint.ed.0.maddr="0xd8000"

Kris
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