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Hi there,

I've got a 486DX33 running FreeBSD2.0.5. I'm in a process of installing
Intel Ether Express 16 NIC. But problems begin to arise. Could any one of
you shed some light to these problems?

1. Can't get the NIC to talk to FreeBSD - we used several different IRQs and
I/O prts with no avail. The IRQs used 3, 5, 7, 10. Ports used 220, 300, 310,
320.  When we use irq 5 and port 310, it seems to works ok, but doing a
probe in the config> section i get a page fault and have to reset.

2.  If i continue to use irq 5 and port 310, on startup, bsd will pick up
the card and give me its memory address, so i went and changed the
/etc/sysconfig file.  I added in ix0 as a network interface and added an
ifconfig line
ifconfig_ix0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00"
        when i startup now, i get 
iscp->busy time out
Reset timeout scb->status = 0
Diagnose timeout cb->status = 0
Diagnose timeout scb->status = 0
Configure timeout cb->status = 0
Configure timeout scb->status = 0
IAS timeout cb ->status = 0
IAS timeout scb ->status = 0

        and then this is repeated...

3. If i ignore this (i am good at ignoring these tings) and ping another
machine on the network, it tells me that the network is down, but when I
look at netstat -I ix0, it tells me that there are no packets being
forwarded (not suprising really).


regards
craig