Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:13:31 GMT From: derm@iol.ie (Dermot McNally) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with ed driver (PCI) Message-ID: <35c03c26.2700750@mail.compuserve.com> In-Reply-To: <35bcb5ac.2742218@mail.compuserve.com> References: <35bcb5ac.2742218@mail.compuserve.com>
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:41:15 GMT, you wrote: >However, this doesn't help, because after boot time, any attempt to >configure the interface leads to the error: > >interface ed0 does not exist OK, There have been a few suggestions so far, none of which hits the problem. I'd better give a few more details. The card is actually sold under the name "Micronet" although it is recognised as a Realtek chipset. Its little green light goes on, indicating that it sees the network OK and the corresponding little green light on the hub comes on too. There is one unusual, and possibly significant issue here - I also have a 3Com network card (calls itself an Etherlink XL, uses the vx driver). If I fit this card, and there's a driver for it in the kernel, the machine hangs after finding the card. The same kernel on a different machine will boot no problem with this card. I haven't yet tried the other machine with the NE2000 - it's a 100% NT machine anyway, so it won't help me much, but it's a useful test. That machine normally runs correctly with the 3Com card. Very strange. The spec of the machine that's causing this trouble is now as follows: Intel LX chipset, a PII 300MHz, made by Gateway 2000 NE2000 PCI network card (Realtek via Micronet) Adaptec UW 2900 SCSI contoller (card, not on board) One US SCSI HD, 1 SCSI CDROM drive STP AGP graphics card (Riva 128 chipset) That's the lot - I pulled the sound card in case it was a factor. The problem occurs with kernels from the 5/24/98 snap as well as from (I think) a 20/7/98 snap I found on ftp.de.freebsd.org but which doesn't seem to be on the main site. Any ideas? Dermot ----------------------------------------------------------- Dermot McNally, derm@iol.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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