Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Krauth <stephenk@stephenk.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.2.1-RELEASE ethernet troubles Message-ID: <20040923230354.W55255@beelzebub.inside> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEFMEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEFMEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Stephen Krauth > > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:37 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: 5.2.1-RELEASE ethernet troubles > > > > > > 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. > > your bios on the motherboard doesen't like that card. try flashing the > bios if possible with a newer version. > > > 3. Slightly less cheap LinkSys LNE100TX, using dc0 driver: dmesg > > reports "MII without PHY!" error and ifconfig therefore doesn't > > see it. > > lots of hardware versions of that card, just for grins try booting > fbsd 4.10 and see if it is recognized. driver issues galore. > > > 4. ANCIENT 10BaseT card using ed0 driver: It's recongnized but > > gives "kernel: ed0 device timeout" errors. > > > > To get that to work you need to go into bios and change the resources to > manually assigned then exclude the irq you have on that card from the > pnp manager in the bios. even then, this may not work on all irq's. > you may be a while at testing different ones. I would have tried that but the PnP config on my BIOS won't let me. It only lets you reserve IRQs 3-15 (skipping a few) and these cards consistently show up on IRQ 17. > Jsut keep trying different pci nics. a intel etherexpress pro100 would be > my next choice (fxp0) > > Ted Anyway, I'll try all of these suggestions and hopefully get it to work. Thanks! - Steve K
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