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Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 16:40:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        pvl@nanoteq.com
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ed0 : device timeout
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970529163816.11036B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705291506.RAA01207@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>

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On Thu, 29 May 1997, Pierre Van Leeuwen wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> I wrote to questions about this earlier, but that didn't solve my
> problem.
> 
> I get the following message :
> ed0 : device timeout
> 
> It doesn't seem to be fatal all the time though.
> 
> Looking at if_ed.c I see it is because the device doesn't 
> generate an interrupt after a transmit was started.
> I commented the line out that checks for the interrupt, 
> and had the function return without doing anything. Didn't
> do any good as expected. 
> 
> It's a D-Link De-220 card which I have exchanged about three
> times, as well as putting a new motherboard in. The 
> only thing I haven't changed is the cpu (Pentium 133).
> I've been running FreeBSD on it since 2.1.5 and I have 
> 2.2-Stable on it at the moment (CVSupped about a week ago --
> I tried to CVSup today, but today the ed0 error is fatal :)  )

  The D-Link 220 is not really NE-2000 compatible.  I have many of
these cards around here, and some revs just cause all kinds of problems,
when using the ed driver.

> What else should I try?

  Try something other than a DE-220

> pierre
> -- 
> Pierre_Andre van Leeuwen
> Electronic Engineer
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