Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:04:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jeff Hamilton" <gandolf@destiny.erols.com> To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Network problems Message-ID: <199904220004.UAA00308@gandolf.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201206160.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:07:37 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jeff Hamilton wrote: > >> > > xl0 <3Com 3c905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 48 int a irq 5 on >> > > pci0:19:0 >> > > fxp0 <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 5 int a irq 9 on >> > > pci0:20:0 >> > >> > Verify that no devices are occupying IRQ 5 or 9 that aren't recognized by >> > FreeBSD. Also try shuffling the order of PCI cards on your bus, and avoid >> > using the bottom-most slot (closest to the ISA slots). >> >> IRQ 5 and 9 were both shown as unused by the system bios before I >> installed the 2 NIC's. FreeBSD recognizes all devices in the system, and >> there are no conflicts with any of them listed in the dmesg output. (at >> least none that I see) > >Thats the thing, something may be there (like the onboard soundcard) that >FreeBSD doesn't detect. Try locking out IRQs 5 and 9 in the BIOS setup to >force the PCI resource assigner to something else. I don't think that there is any way to do this...The bios is very limited on configuration options such as this. I can manually assign IRQ's to devices, but cannot reserve IRQ's. >> I'll try switching the card order. Unfortunately, this motherboard only >> has 2 PCI slots, with the IDE/Floppy/Video/sound cards built-in. I have >> to use the PCI slot next to the ISA slots (it's actually a shared PCI/ISA >> slot). > >What CPU does this thing have? It's a Pentium-120. The motherboard is a Compaq board, and uses a Compaq bios. Could the older motherboard and bios be a part of the problem? >> Which card is better to use with FreeBSD, the 3com905B or the Intel >> EtherExpress Pro? I may remove 1 of the PCI cards, and put my old 3com509 >> ISA card back in. > >The Pro is a *much* better card if you can help it. The xl driver isn't >up to the caliber of the fxp driver. Well...I removed the 3com xl card, and replaced it with an old ISA 3c509. I'm still getting the device timeouts on the EtherExpress, but the the ep driver works well with the 3c509, and since my cable modem is only 10mbit, there's no performance problem. Would upgrading to FreeBSD and the newer fxp driver help this, or is this entirely a hardware issue? Thanks. Jeff Hamilton gandolf@destiny.erols.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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