From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 06:20:03 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 1A37016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:20:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.dslextreme.com (mail5.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC18643D53 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:20:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephenk@stephenk.com) Received: (qmail 20899 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2004 06:20:01 -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; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:20:01 +0000 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Krauth X-X-Sender: stephenk@beelzebub.inside To: Ted Mittelstaedt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040923230354.W55255@beelzebub.inside> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 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: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:20:03 -0000 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