From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 15:22:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18526 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18519 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:22:29 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA01787; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:22:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Alexander Papantonatos cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device timeout prob with ethernet In-Reply-To: <35379FF9.88BEDC02@compsoc.man.ac.uk> 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 Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Alexander Papantonatos wrote: > Hi there I'm using a generic NE2000 compatible ethernet ISA card on my > FBSD box but although it find the beast when autoprobing, everytime I > try to bring ed0 up with ifconfig I get a kernel message saying: > > ed0: device timeout Your device settings are probably incorrect. Double check that the settings match the card's configuration. Also make sure the media is securely attached and functioning -- I have a NE2000 card that goes to sleep if you pull the 10BaseT cable out of it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message