Date: 07 Apr 1998 21:02:12 -0500 From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org To: Dan Williams <dan@bigw.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network cards Message-ID: <874t052hqz.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of "Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:48:32 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407124755.26799E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes: > On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Dan Williams wrote: > > > I have recently put together a FreeBSD machine, and had some problems with > > networking. First, I had 2.2.2 on it, and used an Infotek NE2000 > > compatible network card. Everything was connected fine, and link lights > > wer glowing. But the device timed out, as in ed1: kenel/device timeout. > > This happened with a number of different NE2000 compatible cards. > > Hm, ed1. Is this a PCI card? Check that the interrupt it's getting > assigned isn't being hogged by another device. You haven't talked about the configuration of this card. I have a handful of ne2000's that don't do a damn thing either and i've lost the booklets to set their irqs and base addrs. i guess this is a stupid thing to say, but are you sure you have it all set up correctly? and the line in your kernel config? > > Next, I put on 2.2.5 with a 3Com 3C509. This was connected, but there was > > no link light on the hub it was connected to. It also froze the machine > > when running an Ifconfig on the ep0 driver. We are running 10BaseT. Same... Also are these pnp cards? you might want to disable pnp on these cards. Often I need to do this to get the cards recognized. Also, what does dmesg say? Did it successfully probe the cards?? -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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