From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 15:11:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AC8154C0 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09274; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:11:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: ARCADY GENKIN Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet cards woes (2 x ne2000) In-Reply-To: <19990610062251.18781.qmail@aw164.netaddress.usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Jun 1999, ARCADY GENKIN wrote: > I have a new installation of FreeBSD 3.2Rel. on an i486 with 2 ISA NE2000 > nics. I recompiled the kernel with the following parameters: > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 > device ed1 at isa? port 0x240 net irq 3 iomem 0xd8000 You're sure these are the correct settings? IRQ 3 is a bit odd. > at boot time it looks like they are initialized properly: > > config> en ed0 > config> po ed0 0x300 > config> ir ed0 5 > config> iom ed0 0xd8000 > config> f ed0 0 > config> q > [...] > ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa > ed0: address 52:54:4c:17:c9:5c, type NE2000 (16 bit) > ed1 at 0x240-0x25f irq 3 on isa > ed1: address 00:80:c8:ec:0f:39, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > any attempt to work with them, though, results in "edX: device timeout" > warning. These are caused by: 1) Misconfigs. 2) Link failure. NE2k's generally stop responding if there is no network link present. Check cabling. > Q2: In the kernel configuration file, what is "iomem 0xd8000", and is it > standard for all ethernet cards? If not, how can I find out the value for my > system? It doesn't apply for NE2000s. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message