Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 18:19:13 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.dk> To: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet peculiarity Message-ID: <359ED491.7F3C@soekris.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705121406.26585A-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz>
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Hi Joe, It looks like a classic interrupt conflict, have you tried using another irq number, irq 10 is usually used by the PS2 mouse port, even if no mouse is connected ? Joe Abley wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just put FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE on a Pentium 133 box, 8M RAM, Intel 82439 > PCI chipset, Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA bridge. > > Everything looks normal, and yet I have had a complete inability to get > either 3c509 or NE2000-clone ethernet cards to function. The following > example is from the NE2000 clone, but the 3c509 symptoms were identical > (but with the ep driver). I tried three different 3c509 cards with the > same results. > > Basically, the machine appears to boot and identify the card, but I get > repeated kernel messages of "ed0: device timeout". > > dmesg reveals: > > ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 flags 0x4 on isa > ed0: address 00:c0:58:20:bg:16, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > This results from a kernel configuration of: > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 flags 0x04 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr > > I have tried this without the flags parameter, and with a flags parameter > of 0x02. Same result. This card is an ExpertLan INET2000, which works on > win95 as an NE2000. The manufacturer's setup utility confirms the card is > working, and is set for port 0x300, irq 10 (with no memory-mapped I/O). > > This may well be a completely inappropriate list for this (in which case > "sorry"); however, I _was_ interested in what could cause a generic > kernel-wide ethernet (or ISA?) failure in a machine. > > What is going on? > > Joe > > -- > Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 > Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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