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From: Harris Hancock <vortrab@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: 3c90x PCI NIC
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:43:31 GMT
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Hello.  I've recently installed Minix 2.0.2 on an old P5-120.  I enabled
networking in the kernel.  This machine has a 3Com 3c905 PCI network
card.  When I set the environment variable DPETH0=6800:10 (where the I/O
address is 6800h and the IRQ is 10) it hangs on bootup with a kernel
panic.  I traced it to the update_conf function in the file dp8390.c.
It sets an upper limit on the I/O address number at 1023d (0x3FF).  I
changed it to 65535d (0xFFFF) and it will boot up now.

My question is this: does minix support PCI NIC's?  If so, do 3c90x's
work?  My little hack is just a hack that doesn't really do much other
than preventing it from hanging.

