From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 12 22:39:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19765 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from summersault.com (summersault.com [199.120.185.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA19757 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:39:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@summersault.com) Received: (qmail 288 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Dec 1998 06:45:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Dec 1998 06:45:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:45:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hardie To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ed0 timeout problems installing 2.2.8 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 I've scoured the mailing lists, the web, the drivers pages by the manufacturer of my ethernet cards, played with jumpers, done software configuration, and suffered through many a Userconfig sessions, and cannot for the life of me get FreeBSD 2.2.8 (or 2.2.7) to work with an ethernet card. Here are the details; any help much appreciated: -I've tried several cards. All of them work fine (i.e. are recognized and compatible from the boot diskette) in 2.2.6 but do not work in 2.2.7 or 2.2.8. One is a 3com, one is an SMC 8xxx, one is a generic NE2000 compatible Plug and play. -As I said, I've played with various ways of configuring the card via jumpers and software, and with FreeBSD during the Userconfig. Even when the configurations of OS and ethernet card are exactly the same, it still doesn't work -Here's how it doesn't work: On boot after userconfig, the device detection sees the card just fine with the proper configuration. "Ethernet device detected at ed0" and so on. But, when I go in to the FTP installation setup and hit "go" for resolving the host, here's what happens: Writing /etc/resolv.conf Writing /etc/hosts Adding default route ... Network intialized successfully ... Starting DNS Looking up hostname, ftp.freebsd.org, using inet_addr(). Looking up hostname, ftp.freebsd.org, using gethostbyname(). ed0: device timeout ed0: device timeout ed0: device timeout ed0: device timeout Shutdown for ed0 ... and so on. Happens every time without fail. I don't understand why these cards that have worked just fine in the past all of the sudden fail under the newer versions of the OS. New devices added that are creating a conflict? Bad luck? I've talked to others who have had this problem, who have spent hours swapping ethernet cards and configurations to no avail. What are we missing? Thanks, Chris --------------------------------------------- Chris Hardie chris@summersault.com http://www.summersault.com/chris great is the power of truth --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message