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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

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