From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 08:20:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA16688 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [171.69.104.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA16683 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA25220; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:19:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710171519.LAA25220@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 3c509 ethernet adapter driver??? Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:19:09 -0400 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The problem is in the sauce. Actually, its one of the reasons they call it plug and pray. Odds have it (without you having said it) that you also have a sound blaster plug and play card in the machine. I've found that machines with older BIOSs, the combination of the two is a killer for FreeBSD. Removing the Sound card will fix the problem, until it goes back in the box. Newer BIOSs, on the other hand, seem to deal with it ok. As a For Instance, I have two pentium motherboards with the same BIOS. One is two or three revs later than the other. Both had identical setups inside (video, ethernet, sound, drives, etc). One worked, one didn't. Sorry for the bad news, but, as they say, thats the way it is.