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Cc: ruth
Thanks to everyone who sent me advise on this problem.
I sat down more calmly yesterday with a couple of hours in hand
and finally solved the problem, I now have an ethernet (utp via hub)
with Solaris, Freebsd 2.1 and NT 4.0 all talking to each other
using tcp/ip protocols. - HOORAY -
freebsd using a Kinsgton ne2000 compatable board.
and what was the problem in the end - hardware
addressing/irq conflict I believe: this is what finally
happened:
At last I noticed that the console was displaying the message
ed0: device timeout
I checked the manual page for ed0 and this suggested IRQ conflicts.
I looked at the boot messages - freebsd saw the kingston ethernet
board at IRQ5 and nothing else at this IRQ.
I tried to change the card's IRQ to 10, using it's config program,
but Freebsd kept seeing it at 5. (If I set it to 5 explicitly
freebsd didn't see the card at all)
And then, whilst booting DOS to run the config program, I noticed
that the sound card, a plug and play card, was coming up at IRq5.
After some messing about I discovered I could reserve IRQ5 for ISA
use instead of PnP - using the boot time bios config. So I did
this, the sound card went to 11 - but still no joy!!!!!!
I tried a 3com card, freebsd didn't even see it (3C509).
I tried other addresses in the ed0 range, but only 280x was seen
by freebsd.
Then I thought to try the card at it's other address range, again
only 300x was actually seen by freebsd, as ed1.
I'd left the irq at 10 and still no joy - I was getting timeout
messages.
So I tried one last time to configure the kingston at IRQ 5,
address 300x (duplex and pnp disabled), and glory of glories, the
freebsd came up on the net!!!!!!!!
I think this is called reading the manual, looking at and
believing the evidence, not jumping to conclusions,
and staying calm!!!
anyway, I'm totally relieved to have sorted the problem at last,
many thanks to those who tried to help
ruth
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