From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 00:29:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA26009 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 00:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryoohki.apricot.com (scanner@[206.14.224.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA26004 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 00:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryoohki.apricot.com (scanner@localhost) by ryoohki.apricot.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA01708 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 00:30:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199605130730.AAA01708@ryoohki.apricot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with SMC Ethernet card Reply-To: scanner@apricot.com X-URI: http://www.apricot.com/~scanner/ X-Face: 6K2.ZvQgQ.NDQLIx.1pW(xRu*">:}&PX-Ad_!!?wU7H4L"wF"0xEwYu=8Or0V+=5?-eO1XL 7-0Hom/|]B2C7Uznyol-NVnvEk:+sod^MyB4v4qVpPDemr;b@pZdRSXu.'Gm^t0?2l,j[&t.kbc[UW x6Lz^e$K$W Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 00:30:05 -0700 From: Scanner Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am installing FreeBSD-2.1.0 (off of the 2.1 cdrom) on to a DX4/100 on a ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G motherboard. The only items installed on this MB are the ethernet card and a rather generic VGA card. The machine has 8mb of memory installed (two 4mb simms in slots 1&2.) The ethernet card is set with its jumpers so that it uses IRQ 3 and RAM window at D000. There is a scsi drive in this system and one 3.5" 1.44mb floppy drive. I can partition and label the disk just fine. I can apparently configure the ethernet adaptor just fine. I get the messages on the virtual console: > DEBUG: Init routine called for network device ed0. > ed0: device timeout > add net deafult gateway: 206.14.224.1 > DEBUG: Network initialized succesfully. > ed0: device timeout > ... repeats ... Eventually it gives up not being able to mount the NFS partition. If I try to ping the machine I get no response. The ethernet card's activity lights do show that the card is seeing the general traffic on the network. Not being that familiar with this particular configuration of Intel hardware is there some interupt or something that is swallowing up the ethernet card's responses? The kernel definitely probes and recognizes the card, and apparently claims it was able to configure it correctly. If I do a "ifconfig ed0" on vty4 it comes back with the correct information. I am assuming that the data path to configure the card and query its state is different than the data path used when actually transferring data between the card and the system. I have done network nfs installs of freebsd before, but they were on 3c509's. I will continue poking at this machine and such. Any help would be appreciated. --Scanner (scanner@apricot.com)