From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Feb 10 15:45:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13028 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:45:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from didda.est.is (root@toti.est.is [194.144.208.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13015 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from totii@est.is) Received: from est.is (totii@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by didda.est.is (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA10315; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:44:25 GMT (envelope-from totii@est.is) Message-ID: <34E0E658.442F6E88@est.is> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:44:24 +0000 From: Thordur Ivarsson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Adams CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ne2000 bug References: <34E0CF4A.6B4B@shell1.qpt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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