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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:53:30 -0400
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        ARCADY GENKIN <genkin@usa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ed0: device timeout (repost)
Message-ID:  <376838FA.713E066D@glue.umd.edu>
References:  <19990610211245.22329.qmail@aw164.netaddress.usa.net>

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ARCADY GENKIN wrote:
> 
> Hi all:
> 
> I have a new installation of FreeBSD 3.2Rel. on an i486 with 2 ISA NE2000
> nics. I recompiled the kernel with the following parameters:
> 
> device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000
> device ed1 at isa? port 0x240 net irq 3 iomem 0xd8000
> 
> at boot time it looks like they are initialized properly:
> 
> config> en ed0
> config> po ed0 0x300
> config> ir ed0 5
> config> iom ed0 0xd8000
> config> f ed0 0
> config> q
> [...]
> ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa
> ed0: address 52:54:4c:17:c9:5c, type NE2000 (16 bit)
> ed1 at 0x240-0x25f irq 3 on isa
> ed1: address 00:80:c8:ec:0f:39, type NE2000 (16 bit)
> 
> any attempt to work with them, though, results in "edX: device timeout"
> warning.
> 
> Q1: Does the above look sane? What are "config" and the latter parts of
> initialization?
> Q2: In the kernel configuration file, what is "iomem 0xd8000", and is it
> standard for all ethernet cards? If not, how can I find out the value for my
> system?
> 

I've tried using that card too and ran into the same problem. I
eventually gave up and bought a new card. I've never liked Novell cards
anyway...

Brandon
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