From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Feb 10 15:04:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06881 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from qpt.com (mail.qpt.com [170.1.194.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06872 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sadams@shell1.qpt.com) Received: from 170.1.194.70 by qpt.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0.1); Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:08:15 -0800 Message-ID: <34E0CF4A.6B4B@shell1.qpt.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:10:15 -0700 From: Sean Adams X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ne2000 bug Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message