Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:45:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hardie <chris@summersault.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ed0 timeout problems installing 2.2.8 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812130136020.255-100000@summersault.com>
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I've scoured the mailing lists, the web, the drivers pages by the
manufacturer of my ethernet cards, played with jumpers, done software
configuration, and suffered through many a Userconfig sessions, and cannot
for the life of me get FreeBSD 2.2.8 (or 2.2.7) to work with an ethernet
card. Here are the details; any help much appreciated:
-I've tried several cards. All of them work fine (i.e. are recognized and
compatible from the boot diskette) in 2.2.6 but do not work in 2.2.7 or
2.2.8. One is a 3com, one is an SMC 8xxx, one is a generic NE2000
compatible Plug and play.
-As I said, I've played with various ways of configuring the card via
jumpers and software, and with FreeBSD during the Userconfig. Even when
the configurations of OS and ethernet card are exactly the same, it still
doesn't work
-Here's how it doesn't work:
On boot after userconfig, the device detection sees the card just fine
with the proper configuration. "Ethernet device detected at ed0" and so
on. But, when I go in to the FTP installation setup and hit "go" for
resolving the host, here's what happens:
Writing /etc/resolv.conf
Writing /etc/hosts
Adding default route
...
Network intialized successfully
...
Starting DNS
Looking up hostname, ftp.freebsd.org, using inet_addr().
Looking up hostname, ftp.freebsd.org, using gethostbyname().
ed0: device timeout
ed0: device timeout
ed0: device timeout
ed0: device timeout
Shutdown for ed0
...
and so on. Happens every time without fail.
I don't understand why these cards that have worked just fine in the past
all of the sudden fail under the newer versions of the OS. New devices
added that are creating a conflict? Bad luck?
I've talked to others who have had this problem, who have spent hours
swapping ethernet cards and configurations to no avail. What are we
missing?
Thanks,
Chris
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http://www.summersault.com/chris
great is the power of truth
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