FreeBSD 5.3 and ed0

[Gerard Samuel]

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
>  
>
I'll give this a shot.
Thanks