Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:08:48 -0400 From: "Behal, Satwant" <behsa01@mail.cai.com> To: "'Dan Riley'" <daniel@vailsys.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: problem with network card. Message-ID: <759C8DEC7928D1118B1B00805F85A2F6F407C3@usilmsc1.cai.com>
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Can anyone please help me with this ? > ---------- > From: Dan Riley[SMTP:daniel@vailsys.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 2:43 PM > To: Behal, Satwant > Subject: Re: problem with network card. > > Behal, Satwant wrote: > > > > Dan, > > > > you said: > > Is this irq available to isa via bios? > > how do I find that out ? > > Forgive my lack of technical terms, but most of the time there is an > option in the bios related to plug and play. There you can > enable/disable which irqs are reserved for legacy isa cards and which > irqs are available to pnp/pci cards. > > > yes, it works with win95. > > If this is the case I would assume that the irq issue we are thinking > about from above is not the issue. > > > how do I "force tp or bnc"? > > Again, if it works in win95 then I doubt this has anything to do with > it. The card should have most likely come with a setup or configuration > utility with which you can tell the card exactly what media type is > being plugged into it rather than letting it auto-select between aui, > bnc and tp. > > It may be that the chipset revision on the card is simply not compatable > with the driver that is being used. Sounds like you are getting close to > asking the hackers list for some valuable insight, if you have not > already. > > Regards, > > Dan Riley > > > thanks, > > satwant. > > > ---------- > > > From: Dan Riley[SMTP:daniel@vailsys.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 11:23 AM > > > To: Behal, Satwant > > > Subject: Re: problem with network card. > > > > > > Behal, Satwant wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > > > > The error message is > > > > /kernel: ed0: device not responding. > > > > > > > > The dmesg has these lines: > > > > ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 maddr 0xcc000 msize 16384 on isa > > > > ed0:address 00:00:c0:67:66:8a type WD8013EPC (16 bit) > > > > > > > > > > Is this irq available to isa via bios? > > > > > > > This info matches the WIN95 device drivers info. > > > > > > Does it work when you are running win95? > > > > > > > > > > > The entries in /etc/rc.conf are: > > > > > > > > network_interfaces "ed0" > > > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.35.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > > > > > > Also, de0 seem to be DECDC21040 ethernet adapters. > > > > > > > > There is no conflict with any other IRQ as well. > > > > > > > > Any idea why kernel would find ed0 not responding ? > > > > > > Maybe confused about the media it is connected to, force tp or bnc. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Dan Riley > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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