Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:32:37 -0500 From: James Snow <snow@teardrop.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 -> 4.2-S broke my Ethernet card? Message-ID: <20010124193237.B37959@teardrop.org> In-Reply-To: <20010124192912.A37959@teardrop.org>; from snow@teardrop.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:29:12PM -0500 References: <20010124192912.A37959@teardrop.org>
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Ignore this. Right after I sent it Christopher Sean Hilton's and Johnahon Chen's posts showed up. -James On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:29:12PM -0500, James Snow wrote: > I've got an old laptop with a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PCMCIA card in > it. This was working just dandy under 4.0. I just cvsup'd the box to > 4.2-S and this card died. The machine reports the MAC address of the > card erroneously (aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa), complains of device timouts, and > corrupted NIC memory. It also reports the card as being an NE1000 (8 > bit) where previously it had been reported as an NE2000 (16 bit). > > Swapped out the card to no avail. Though, oddly enough, booting off of > the 4.2 boot floppies would make it all the way through an FTP install > of 4.2. Once installed, it failed again as described above. > > Has anyone had any similar problems? > > I have verified that it's not an IRQ conflict, tested the card in > another machine and swapped out the card. It's not the PCMCIA slot or > controller as these both work fine when booted off the FreeBSD boot > floppies. > > I can't think of anything else to try. > > > -James > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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