Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:34:51 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@bit-net.com> To: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed: device broken!? (was Re: ed1: device timeout?) Message-ID: <358B3BEB.37E7E766@bit-net.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19980617153107.03161448@wolfepub.com>
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I believe in your BIOS you can set the i/o and irq for the pci slot that your card is in. you can also set a slot for auto set which will look for i/o and irq. If you set it make sure you set it for an available i/o and irq. This should help you out. Matthew Hagerty wrote: > > Greetings, > > Sorry for the cross-post to hackers, but this has been kicking around on > questions for a day or two with no resolution. I have tried everything > suggested to me but nothing helps. > > Does anyone know if there is a problem with the ed: device driver on > 2.2.6-R? I have a PCI NIC that was giving me a ed1: timeout error. I have > removed *every* card in the system except the video card (on the ISA bus), > changed cables twice, and set the NIC to every IRQ available on the system. > I even disabled the serial and parallel ports to be able to use those IRQs. > > But here is the clincher... I took out the PCI NIC and put in a real > Novell/Eagle NE2000 ISA NIC. It is jumper-less so I used the DOS utility > that came with the card to set the IRQ and base address. Then I booted > with the GENERIC kernel and set ed0: to the correct settings. Now for the > big kick in the a**. Both cards, the PCI and ISA NIC are both NE2000, so > they both use the ed: device and *both* cards give me the ed: timeout > error!! By this time I was banging my head on everything in reach. I have > another ISA NIC (a 3Com) that uses the ep: device and it works fine. > > Anyone else having problems like this? The MB is an ASUS-Tech SPG3 (yes > it is a 486). Intel-DX2-66, 24MB RAM, 4 ISA, 3 PCI, onboard IDE and SCSI > (both of which can be disabled). I have been running FreeBSD on it for > about 2 years and this is the first time I have had any problems. > > Thanks > Matthew > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD It's That And More http://www.FreeBSD.org /SD http://sderdau.bit-net.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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