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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:44:16 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl
Cc:        John Holland <john@zoner.org>, ps@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs
Message-ID:  <l0313030ab5817d075af2@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <20000626163623.A60970@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
References:  <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>; from john@zoner.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400 <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>

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At 16:36 +0200 26/6/00, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote:
>> Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a new
>> kernel.  The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed*
>> devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs).  Before this, the system was
>> working perfectly.
>>
>> Did something break in the ed driver in the two months since I last built
>> the system from source?
>>
>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.[etc]

"Me too" (on -current). This is actually a reversion:

if_ed.c:
>revision 1.170
>date: 1999/11/01 01:16:56;  author: jmb;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -18
>        rearrange order of tests for NE1000, NE2000, and Linksys
>        cards.   previous order caused computers with NE2000 cards
>        to hang during boot.

Backing up to if_ed.c 1.180 fixes it here, and I can't immediately see how
the 1.181 change alters things for Linksys (except possibly for timing).


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