FreeBSD 5.3 and ed0

[NetAdmin]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 21:43, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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


For what it's worth, here are my ed0 settings.

# uname -a
FreeBSD foxdaemon.com 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov  6
12:56:51 EST 2004

# ifconfig -m ed0
ed0: flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        inet 24.172.XXX.XXX netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 24.172.XXX.XXX
        ether 00:e0:29:4e:58:ab

# dmesg | grep ed0
ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0x9000-0x901f irq 7 at
device 11.0 on pci0
ed0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ed0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:29:4e:58:ab



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