Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 05:12:14 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: scottm2@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC Message-ID: <199709201212.FAA19813@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:36:58 BST." <3422D45A.7110@home.com>
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>Hi. I am a very experienced user of FreeBSD. I am having a strange >problem I hope you can shed some light on. A particular server I am >working on has an AT/Lantic network card. It is ISA and when probed the >system finds it to be ed1, irq 5, 0x300, and also prints the hardware >address of the card to the console. When going through the install, when >I initiate the install after the ip addressing screen the install >stalls. I have checked the debugger screen and see a ed1 device timeout. >This machine is intended to be a dual boot server, and has NT already >installed. According to NT the card is IRQ 2, address 0x300. I have >tried using these parameters but still no go. Is this a memory address >thing?(it is set to 0xd800). Any suggestions you may have would be >appreciated. Unfortunately I have no pci slots left in the machine, so I >must use the at card. I have used many ne2000 variants in the past with >no problems. The only other thing is its a 10baseT/coax combo card. Is >there a parameter I can add at install to force the card into 10baseT >mode? In the past dual mode cards have given some sort of interface >parameter message on boot, but not this time. Help me... This isn't the first time I've heard of problems with AT/Lantic based boards. I think the NIC is slightly incompatible in some way with standard 83*90 chips, but I don't know in what way. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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