Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:58:28 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ed0 device timeout Message-ID: <200110301459.f9UExPc08138@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Hello! I am putting together a low-end PC to act as a router between two internal (192.168.x.0) networks, running 4.4-RELEASE. I'm having some trouble with network cards. Any card that uses 'ed' driver does not seem to work properly. When I try to ping something through ed0, I get an error message: /kernel: ed0: device timeout. I've done some searching in archives and overwhelming opinion seems to be that this is caused by low-quality network cards that are simply not working properly. This might very well be the case, but I have tried *four* different cards with similar results, whereas I have built several such low-end "router" machines with second-hand junk cards before and have *never* had this problem. Might there be some other cause to these timeout messages besides faulty cards? A note: all machines I've built in the past have been 486-s, this is the first time I'm doing a P5/120. Maybe this is just "too fast"? The cards I've tried (not the best brands, I admit ;-) ) are: ISA Accton EN 1666 ISA D-Link DE220 ISA Noname (don't really know what it is but it works in Win95 and I have identical cards working in other FreeBSD machines) PCI Accton 1208 (with Realtek 8029 chip) All cards are detected fine in dmesg. Is there anything I might try besides digging my supplies for yet another network card? Maybe go to nearest shop and buy a decent NIC (*grin*)? -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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