Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:44:24 +0000 From: Thordur Ivarsson <totii@est.is> To: Sean Adams <sadams@shell1.qpt.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ne2000 bug Message-ID: <34E0E658.442F6E88@est.is> References: <34E0CF4A.6B4B@shell1.qpt.com>
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Sean Adams wrote: > > 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. > I have system here with 5 cards, that orginally had 7 cards, NE2000 compatible and it works fine. I am not sure of what you are experiencing. Þórður Ívarsson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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