From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 11:43:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05764 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05759 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-133 [207.14.72.133]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA04129; Tue, 13 May 1997 09:39:20 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:32:41 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Tim Oneil cc: Steve Howe , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed net card question In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970513082752.009993c0@visigenic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 May 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > >> my exsisting 2.2.1 system wants to recognize as ed0. It > >NE2000 compatable (good) > Yeah, its an NE2000 compatible. > >> times out though after the system comes up, I suppose becuase i'm not quite sure what you mean by "timing out". i'm no expert, but the only way i can imagine anything timimg out is to have so many busy IRQs below the ethernet card that it can do anything in sufficient time. i guess at IRQ15, that might be possible! hehe! in general, you don't want any drives below any communication devices, or anything that hogs big chunks of time. > >you may need it to program the flash ... > Yep. The auto config in the installation program suggested IRQ 15 > which I thought was a little strange, but I selected it. > >BAD setting - will conflict with COM2 (oh, it's jumperable?) > Software config only, no jumpers. > >the pc has no UARTs on board? > Its an AMD bios 486 board. I have a serial card on it for serial > stuff. i guess that means no? > >> and it still timed out. I was wondering if there was an ideal > >> irq to use on the fresh 2.2.1 system? Does the dos config ware > >yeah, 5 or 7 - as long as you don't use your printer on one of those. > I don't, so I guess I'll try those. > >you should read more about this stuff. you will need to set up > >ARP, PPP, etc, etc. check out some of the Linux manuals ... you may like Network Administrators Guide (NAG) > I will, certainly. One thing though, I shouldn't see these time out > messages normally, should I? Fortunately, the fate of nations doesn't > ride on my getting this set up, its my own personal thing, I want > to set up an intranet at home. So I figure I'll make the timeout > messages go away first, and then start tinkering with protocols. > Si? > -Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------