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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:04:32 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NE2000 clone ISA card 
Message-ID:  <199801180004.QAA16677@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:28:05 MST." <3.0.3.32.19980114102805.03c07a10@infowest.com> 

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>I was wondering if anyone has seen something similar to what I encountered.
>
>Not terribly long ago I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on an old 486
>DX2/66 16MB RAM VESA/ISA PC with a small 400 MB HD belonging to a local
>high school.  Everything seemed to work normally, so I took the box back to
>the school to try it on their ethernet.  On boot, the machine correctly
>detects the NE2000 clone card as device ed1 (never ed0 - weird), printing
>the hardware ethernet address.  The lights on the card show that it is
>plugged into the hub and happy, and I can even see the traffic light
>blinking.  Then the weirdness comes along.  I see a "ed1: device timeout"
>message as the boot begins starting network services.

   Sounds like the interrupt isn't configured correctly for it in the kernel.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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