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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:25:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "by way of Leonard Chung <leonard@pacbell.net>" <leonard@pacbell.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ethernet Configuration Woes...  :(
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961017002430.3139a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961017053539.006712e0@pacbell.net>

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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, by way of Leonard Chung <leonard@pacbell.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to get a small ethernet network set up between my two 
> computers.  One has a NE2000-compatible (16-bit) BNC ethernet card while the 
> other has a NE1000-compatible (8-bit) BNC ethernet card.  The computer 
> with the NE2000 is set to 10.0.0.2 while the NE1000 computer is 
> 10.0.0.1.  I think I've got both configured correctly, but for some 
> reason I keep getting "ed1: timeout" error messages.  I've checked the 
> IRQ on both computers so that can't be the problem.  I'm unable to ping 
> either computer from one another.  Is there something I'm missing here?

> ed1 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa
> ed1: address 00:80:c8:0a:2f:c3, type NE1000 (8 bit) 
> [snip]
> ed1: device timeout
> ed1: device timeout
> ed1: device timeout
> ......................etc.

The IRQ may be wrong.  Make sure the IRQ in FreeBSD matches with the
card's settings.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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