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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:10:15 -0700
From:      Sean Adams <sadams@shell1.qpt.com>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ne2000 bug
Message-ID:  <34E0CF4A.6B4B@shell1.qpt.com>

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I have spent an extraordinary amount of time troubleshooting an
NE2000/freeBSD incompatibility that was not mentioned in the handbook.
You might want to look into this:

I have experimented with many brands of NE2000 cards both ISA and PCI,
using many different motherboards, and have concluded the following:

NE2000 cards of any brand, whether ISA or PCI, cause the FreeBSD kernel
to hang without warning, if more than one NE2000 card is installed.

Although no more than one NE2000 card may be present in a system, these
cards CAN coexist with other types of ethernet boards (specifically, the
Intel EtherExpress works fine.)

I am running four Intel PCI boards and one NE2000 ISA board, and
everything works fine as long as I don't try to add another NE2000
board.

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