Date: 27 Jun 2000 14:34:55 +0200 From: micheloo@xs4all.nl (Michel Oosterhof) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs Message-ID: <8ja71f$a24$1@xs3.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200006270631.AAA32111@harmony.village.org>
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imp@village.ORG (Warner Losh) writes: >In message <20000626163623.A60970@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> "Karel J. Bosschaart" writes: >: On 06/17 there was a change in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c, which causes my ISA >: NE2000 compatible to hang at boot time, just like in your case. I contacted >: Paul Saab, who commited the change, about it and hope he will have a >: solution. As a quick workaround, you might try replacing if_ed.c with an >: 'old' one and recompile your kernel. I didn't try this myself. Instead >: I replaced my ISA NIC with a PCI NIC (also using ed0...) which works fine. >: If you go into config mode during boot and disable the ed driver the system >: will boot again - without network of course :-(. >: (The change in if_ed.c had to do with probing newer cards). >Yes. We really need to split up the ed driver into three new drivers: >ne (for the ne2000), smc (for the smc based card) and ls (for linksys, >although my off the cuff name sucks). Probing is becoming much harder >for these beasts and order is getting harder and harder to get right >for every card on the planet :-( I also had problems with my latest kernel, that hangs at boot time right after the parallel port (which is just before the ethernet devices, i think). This could be a configuration error on my part, or maybe i walked into the same bug as the poster here (it's an NE2000 clone card). Just thought I'd let you know. michel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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