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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:27:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Sverre Valgeirsson <sverrev@axis.com>
To:        Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007080918400.7372-100000@oddput.axis.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007070953060.85114-100000@markl.com>

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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Damon Hammis wrote:

> If it's a pci card then the isa part isn't needed, so device ed0 should
> work fine.  I had an ne2000 pci nic in my pc for a while with no problems.
> As far as the IRQ conflict goes, there should be a setting in your bios to
> disable the IRQ for the graphics card.  It's not needed and just chews up
> IRQs anyways.  Also, if it was an IRQ conflict then there would be a
> message saying so during boot and FreeBSD wouldn't initialize the card at
> all.

I have another NE2000 card in another machinei (4.0), and that works great
(I'll test swapping the cards). 

> Have you tried booting the system without the card and seeing if that
> helps?
>
Without the card the system boots as normal. With it, the screen only
updates when the kernel has something to write to it. 

I get this in dmesg:

Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1080 device=0600)> rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0
vga0: <Tseng Labs ET4000 W32P graphics accelerator> rev 0x00 int a irg 255
on pci0.3.0
ed1: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> rev 0x00 int a irg 0 on pci0.4.0
ed1: address 00:00:21:d3:c8:81, type NE2000 (16 bit)
Probing for PnP devices:
......
....

/sverre





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