Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:37:55 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: 'Mike Meyer' <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: What Is config> During Boot? Message-ID: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF70D@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <14860.49919.242784.217200@guru.mired.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 7:55 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What Is config> During Boot? > > > Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> types: > > Sorry for the long message but I want to be as explicit as > I can regarding > > the steps I have taken. Thanks for your time! > > Providing what you believe is all the relevant information is always a > good thing. Providing a little extra doesn't hurt. Asking people to > dig things out isn't such a great idea. You did an excellent job here > - but we still want more. > > > I am still attempting to get a 2nd NIC working in my box I > can connect to an > > external DSL modem and do NAT. Here's the situation: > > > > 1. I have 2 identical LinkSys ISA 10-baseT cards that are > NE2000 compatible. > > One (ed0) has been in the system and working reliably since > I built the > > system this summer. It is set to IRQ 9 and address 240H. > My system in not > > PnP. > > > > The second (ed1) was added yesterday and has never worked > properly in this > > system but was working fine in the Windows 2000 system it > was removed from. > > It is set to IRQ 11 and address 260H. Both cards passed > all tests in the > > configuration software. > > I edited the original "device ed0" line to reflect the > correct settings. > > Then I copied and edited for ed1. So the lines were as follows: > > > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x240 irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 > > device ed1 at isa? port 0x260 irq 11 iomem 0xd8000 > > > > 3. I also edited /etc/rc.conf to include ed1: > > > > network_interfaces="ed0 ed1 lo0" > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > ifconfig_ed1="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" > > I believe that having two nics on the same network is asking for > problems when they work. I've not done it, so can't say for sure what > you'll see. I don't really intend to run this way. I only did it thinking that if I could ping the address, then the card is working. Ultimately, either the card will have an IP from my ISP and be connected to an external DSL modem. > > 4. Then I recompiled and restarted the system. Upon > restart, I get the > > following message: > > ed0 at port 0x240-0x25f iomem 0xd8000 irq 9 drq 0 on isa0 > > ed0: address 00:40:05:66:b2:55, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > ed1 at port 0x260-0x27f iomem 0xd0000 irq 11 on isa0 > > ed1: address 00:40:05:66:b2:52, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > This is good - it means the system found them both. > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > ed1: device timeout > > ed1: device timeout > > The device timeouts are likely because you've got something else on > IRQ 11. Check that, and change it if it's the problem. Nothing shows in dmesg regarding IRQ 11 other than ed1. In a different message, I inquired about a command or port that would scan the system and show what IRQs are in use. Besides dmesg, someone (Otter) suggested "vmstat -i". I don't see any IRQ 11 in the output: 108 Blacksheep# vmstat -i interrupt total rate fdc0 irq6 2 0 ata0 irq14 58762 0 ata1 irq15 36132 0 sio0 irq4 5606 0 sio1 irq3 2 0 ppc0 irq7 5 0 ed0 irq9 8109 0 clk irq0 7429021 99 rtc irq8 9509463 127 Total 17047102 229 > > Then thinking that "at isa?" means "probe and see what you > find", I removed > > everything after "at isa?" and recompiled again. This time > only ed0 was > > found but it still worked. > > Put that stuff back. "at isa?" means "I don't know which ISA bus it's > on, try these values at all the ones in the machine." Removing the > information about port, irq, etc. means to try the default values for > that device, and there isn't one there. So if I understand the other part of your message properly, ed0 worked only because it is defined in the kernel.conf file? And otherwise, neither card would work? > > So now I'm looking things over and see that at the > beginning of dmesg, there > > lines like this: > > > > ... > > config> en ed0 > > config> po ed0 0x240 > > config> ir ed0 9 > > config> iom ed0 0xd8000 > > config> f ed0 0 > > config> q > > ... > > > > What is "config>" and should there be something there for > ed1 as well? Is > > this my problem? I'd appreciate any help, thoughts, > nudges, etc. I'm new > > to both Unix and FBSD so I may be missing something really basic. > > Some one confined ed0 properly for you via the userconfig option. This > does the same thing as "ed0 at isa? port 0x240 irq 9 iomem 0xd8000" in > the kernel config file. You could use this to set up ed1 instead of > the kernel config file - but if you've got an IRQ conflict, it won't > work any better than the kernel config. That someone would be the installation program. :) I didn't know ANYTHING about Unix or FreeBSD before I installed this system in September. But I'm learning... Thanks for all of your help!!! So you think that the ultimate problem is an IRQ conflict? If I remove ed1 NIC, is there some way to scan the system and see what is available? Is vmstat -i a good option? Thanks again, Drew > <mike > > > > 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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