From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 13:18:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00447 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.brann.org ([207.122.63.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA00437 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by freebie.brann.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA06255; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:22:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199610302122.QAA06255@freebie.brann.org> Subject: Re: Ethernet setup In-Reply-To: from "Raistlin, Master of Past and Present" at "Oct 30, 96 12:45:06 pm" To: raistln@ksu.edu (Raistlin, Master of Past and Present) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:22:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org From: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Raistlin, Master of Past and Present wrote... > I'm setting up FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a 486 PC. Here are teh messages I'm getting: > > ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa > ed0: address 00:c0:d1:57:16:19 type NE2000 (16 bit) > ... > ed0: device timeout > ... > ed0: device timeout > > I can tell that the card is accepting packets up until the local system > is started. At which time it stops talking. Does anyone have any idea why? > > Chris Ginn > > > -- > Chris Ginn raistln@ksu.edu > > > This is almost certainly because your card is not set for IRQ 5. If you can set it by jumper - do so, if not you'll need to boot into DOS and use the card's soft configuration to find / set the IRQ and check the memory addresses. John -- Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens. finger jbrann@brann.org for pgp public key