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Date:      Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:31:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ethernet peculiarity
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704182652.15538A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705121406.26585A-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz>

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On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Joe Abley wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I just put FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE on a Pentium 133 box, 8M RAM, Intel 82439
>PCI chipset, Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA bridge.

	8MB??? Get more ram.

>
>Everything looks normal, and yet I have had a complete inability to get
>either 3c509 or NE2000-clone ethernet cards to function. The following
>example is from the NE2000 clone, but the 3c509 symptoms were identical
>(but with the ep driver). I tried three different 3c509 cards with the
>same results.
>
>Basically, the machine appears to boot and identify the card, but I get
>repeated kernel messages of "ed0: device timeout".

	This does sound like an irq problem. Also, check to make sure the
card is set for the type of cable you are using. For example, if you are
using UTP, make sure the card is set for 10BaseT then. (Even though dont'
think this is the case).

>
>dmesg reveals:
>
>  ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 flags 0x4 on isa
>  ed0: address 00:c0:58:20:bg:16, type NE2000 (16 bit)
>
>This results from a kernel configuration of:
>
>  device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 flags 0x04 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
>
>I have tried this without the flags parameter, and with a flags parameter
>of 0x02. Same result. This card is an ExpertLan INET2000, which works on
>win95 as an NE2000. The manufacturer's setup utility confirms the card is
>working, and is set for port 0x300, irq 10 (with no memory-mapped I/O).
>
>This may well be a completely inappropriate list for this (in which case
>"sorry"); however, I _was_ interested in what could cause a generic
>kernel-wide ethernet (or ISA?)  failure in a machine.

	It is inappropriate list. You should have mailed
questions@freebsd.org

>
>What is going on?
>

	Can you attach output of "dmesg" also? There might be an irq
conflict?

>
>Joe
>
>--
>Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>      Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008
>Network Architect, CLEAR Net                      http://www.clear.net.nz/
>
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