From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 16 19:11:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14016 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 19:11:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14011 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 19:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00919; Sat, 16 May 1998 19:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd000917; Sun May 17 02:06:26 1998 Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 19:06:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: Shen Jing , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A newbie's question In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 16 May 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 1998, Shen Jing wrote: > > Excellent description of your situation. Thank you. > > > > > when the freebsd boot up , after it config the ed1 ( ethernet card > >) > >with ifconfig , it shows : > > > > ed1: device time out > > ed0 is the first network card. ed1 is the second network card. You should > config ed0 and remove ed1 if you have only one network card. thjis is not really a problem. what he needs to do is: at Boot: type '-cv' and enter teh configuration screen. he needs to set the correct Interrupt (IRQ) for his card into the configuration for ed1. The other thing that can cause this error is bad cabling but he says that it works with DOS. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message