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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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