Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:46:31 -0400 From: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com> To: Stephen Derdau <sderdau@bit-net.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed1: device timeout? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980616174631.03160de4@wolfepub.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980616171827.4587A-100000@mail.bit-net.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19980616152107.03261b14@wolfepub.com>
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The card is a PCI card, I can't set its IRQ :( There are no other PCI *cards* in the machine. Matthew >What you want ot look for is an irq or i/o address confilict >What type of card do you have and what are the settings? > >For example to configure an ne2000 card one could >say check the settings from dos using the setup software >that comes with the card. Here one can change the settings >etc. > >Then after all this information is either remembered or >written down one can boot Freebsd. >At the boot : type in -c and go to visual mode >Here one would check the network settings. >For the device say ed0 usually 3 settings. >i/o address >irq >and memory address. >If these look good for your card exit out , finish boooting >and >run dmesg and see where a potential confilict can be. >After you log in at command line type dmesg maybe add | more >so you can page through it. >I hope this helps you out. I'm a newbie at this stuff. >However, I have gone through much of the same things and >maybe I can help you out a little this time. >Someone else may also respond who has more knowledge and >better writting skills than myself. :-) > >Till then I'll keep chugging along and learning as I go. >All thanks to FreeBSD > FreeBSD When It Matters >Thank You > >/sd > >On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I have a PCI ethernet card that seems to be found by the kernel with no >> problem, but as soon as the statup ifconfigs the the device (ed1), I get >> the error: >> >> ed1: device timeout >> >> displayed. What should I be looking at to fix this? Hardware, setup, bad >> card, etc.?? >> >> Thanks, >> Matthew >> >> >> 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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