From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 04:26:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA13236 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 04:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA13231 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 04:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA19589; Mon, 13 May 1996 21:04:27 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605131134.VAA19589@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problem with SMC Ethernet card To: scanner@apricot.com Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 21:04:27 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605130730.AAA01708@ryoohki.apricot.com> from "Scanner" at May 13, 96 00:30:05 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scanner stands accused of saying: > > 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 Either you have network hardware problems, or the card's interrupt is not being passed through. Being a PCI system, make sure that the IRQ you have assigned to the card is configured in the BIOS to be passed through to the ISA bus. Note also that IRQ 3 is _not_ a wise choice, as the motherboard serial hardware owns that one. Go for 5 as a first choice. > 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. No, however interrupts are not used when probing the card. > --Scanner (scanner@apricot.com) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[