From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 15 4:16: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC9C37B7A5 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA19642; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007151103.EAA19642@implode.root.com> To: John Hay Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed0 and isa cards on 4.x In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:47:44 +0200." <200007150847.e6F8liH45154@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:03:13 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Have anyone 4.x working with an ISA card and the ed0 device? I can't >believe that it can be broken for so long without anyone noticing. I >have been using 4.x on lots of machines here, but all of them with >pci ethernet cards. > >I have tried to install a recent 4.0 snap on a machine with a SMC8216 >card, but everytime I got the dreaded "ed0 device timeout" message. >I have tried different interrupts, changed cards, but nothing helped. >I even tried it on another machine and had the same results. I even >tried 4.0-RELEASE, but got the same results. Then I tried 3.5-RELEASE >and that worked without a problem. Hmmm. That's VERY weird. I'll see if I can find an ISA card around here and test it out in the lab. It definately sounds like an interrupt problem. Are you sure that you have your kernel config file right? -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message