From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 05:23:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02126 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01935 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16677; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:04:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801180004.QAA16677@implode.root.com> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NE2000 clone ISA card In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:28:05 MST." <3.0.3.32.19980114102805.03c07a10@infowest.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:04:32 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >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