Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NE2000 clone ISA card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980114155052.27320F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980114102805.03c07a10@infowest.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > Not terribly long ago I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on an old 486 > DX2/66 16MB RAM VESA/ISA PC with a small 400 MB HD belonging to a local > high school. Everything seemed to work normally, so I took the box back to > the school to try it on their ethernet. On boot, the machine correctly > detects the NE2000 clone card as device ed1 (never ed0 - weird), printing > the hardware ethernet address. The lights on the card show that it is > plugged into the hub and happy, and I can even see the traffic light > blinking. Then the weirdness comes along. I see a "ed1: device timeout" > message as the boot begins starting network services. Hm. it'll come up ed1 if ed0 is disabled or if the card is PCI (which it doesn't sound like). Also, make sure the IRQ you are assigning to the card isn't in use by another device and that the cable is in good shape (bad cabling and line noise have been known to send ethernet cards into tail spins). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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