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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:27:30 +0200
From:      "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za>
To:        "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3Com NIC won't work!?!
Message-ID:  <05b201c255a9$2d154d80$b50d030a@PATRICK>
References:  <200209051733.g85HXhV03709@lv.raad.tartu.ee>

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From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
>> Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink
XL>
>> port 0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xe4800000-0xe480007f irq 5 at device 6.0 on
pci1
>> Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: reset didn't complete
>
> This is just my guess, but IRQ 5 seems somewhat unusual choice for
NIC.
> Maybe some other device is trying to use the same IRQ? Have you tried
> turning off PnP in your BIOS? Putting the NIC in different PCI slot?

Toomas,

Thanks for your response.  My current NIC is an SMC, and it is running
right now on IRQ 5.  I would assume that means that's OK ?

As for PnP, and other slots, I will try that sometime, but I can't do it
too soon as the box is far away from me :(

Regards,
Patrick O'Reilly.
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