I recently loaded NetBSD-1.0 onto my 486 running 8meg RAM. 
120meg ide drive.


I was having problems with the OS recognizing my 3COM 503 card.
Yesterday, I purchased a Ether16 LAN card (NE2000). 

The first time I booted my system, the OS reported the MAC and the
name of the device (ed2) IRQ14, addr 0x300h. 

All of the utils that use the card have no problem with it. (eg ping
ifconfig, netstat, nslookup, etc...)


g-sqrd...

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| Garland B. Grayson       |
| Susquehanna Investm't Grp|
| Sr. Systems Administrator|
| e-mail: bruceg@susq.com  |
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On Mon, 28 Nov 1994, Richard Tobin wrote:

> > Hello,  I used Ethernet LAN card NE2000.  I tried to install NetBSD-1.0.  
> 
> I have a cheap NE2000 card in a PC here, and the only way I can get it
> to work (ie not hang during boot) is to remove the code in the ed driver
> that probes for all except the right device.  It seems that the probing
> for other devices puts the card into a bad state. 
> 
> -- Richard
>