From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 14:31:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stone.locallink.net (Stone.LocalLink.Net [204.71.156.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED2037B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:31:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kpitcher@localhost) by stone.locallink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA14196; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:31:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20001115173126.03991@locallink.net> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:31:26 -0500 From: Keith Pitcher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tx0 + 4.1.1 NIC problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a 3.4 system that has ran fine for about a year. Updated it to 4.1.1 and the system installed via boot disk and FTP fine. But after that it refuses to boot past detection of the network card. I pulled the card out and things booted fine. I put in a new NIC, booted fine. Rebooted, and it locked in the same place. This is using the generic kernel. I put in another new card, booted once then it locked up. Tested the cards on a win machine and they work fine. In summary if I boot from floppy the card works. If I boot with a brand new NIC it works. After that it locks up. I recompiled the kernel to include ONLY the tx and miibus for network cards and it still locked up. I threw in an NE2000 card and things work fine using the ed driver. Here is a message at the point of hanging. tx0: port 0xf400-0xf4ff mem 0xffaef000-0xffaeffff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 miibus0: on tx0 nsphy0: on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Today I tried installing fbsd 4.1.1 from a cdrom on a system with an SMC card on another system. It installed fine, but then it too locked upon reboot at the same place. Any ideas - other then to avoid SMC tx cards? (Which I haven't had a problem with since they've been supported in 2.2.8) Thanks, Keith kpitcher@LocalLink.Net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message