From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 07:37:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AADF16A4DD for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:37:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.dslextreme.com (mail5.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F8E643D60 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:37:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephenk@stephenk.com) Received: (qmail 8283 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 07:37:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO adsl-66-218-39-226.dslextreme.com) (66.218.39.226) by 192.168.8.93 with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:37:19 +0000 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:37:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Krauth X-X-Sender: stephenk@beelzebub.inside To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040923000917.V55255@beelzebub.inside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: 5.2.1-RELEASE ethernet troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:37:24 -0000 I'm at wits end here trying to setup a new Athlon64 machine with the i386 release of 5.2.1-RELEASE. The problem is getting it to like a network card of some sort; I've tried and failed with 4 so far: 1. Motherboard built-in NVidia gigethernet (Ok, didn't expect that one to be supported) 2. Cheapo VT6105-based card using vr(4) driver: It's recongnized in ifconfig but I get the dreaded "watchdog timeout" errors. I can't seem to disable PnP in the BIOS per archive suggestions. Also tried swapping slots, but it always shows on the same IRQ. ACPI on/off doesn't matter. 3. Slightly less cheap LinkSys LNE100TX, using dc0 driver: dmesg reports "MII without PHY!" error and ifconfig therefore doesn't see it. 4. ANCIENT 10BaseT card using ed0 driver: It's recongnized but gives "kernel: ed0 device timeout" errors. (Sorry I can't include any dmesg output; I have no networking on the machine. However, it's an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard.) So - do I have amazingly bad luck in choosing ethernet cards, or is something else going on? The suggestions I've found in the archives for cards 2 and 3 above didn't work. Any ideas at all about what I can do to get working? Thanks! - Steve K.