From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 8:52:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF55637B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G3V00F01DJK2M@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.185]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G3V00DHGDJJU1@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:52:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:52:50 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: What Is config> During Boot? In-reply-to: <001301c04b9b$c9e3af90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> To: 'Matthew Emmerton' , bbayorgeon@new.rr.com, Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Emmerton [mailto:matt@gsicomp.on.ca] > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 8:57 PM > To: bbayorgeon@new.rr.com; Mike Meyer; Drew Tomlinson > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What Is config> During Boot? > > > > > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x240 irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 > > > device ed1 at isa? port 0x260 irq 11 iomem 0xd8000 > > > > This looks a little funny that both of these cards are trying > > to use iomem 0xd8000 > > > > Now later you say: > > > > > ed0 at port 0x240-0x25f iomem 0xd8000 irq 9 drq 0 on isa0 > > > ed0: address 00:40:05:66:b2:55, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > > ed1 at port 0x260-0x27f iomem 0xd0000 irq 11 on isa0 > > > ed1: address 00:40:05:66:b2:52, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > > > So how did ed1 go from iomem d8000 to d0000? > > This may not be the case here, but I've seen similar things > with a pair of > NE2000 cards that I have. The DOS setup programs will only > let the IRQ and > I/O port be set. > > Regardless of what I specify in the kernel config, somehow > during the probe > the correct values for IOMEM are returned and the cards work happily > together. Should I remove the iomem and following values in my kernel config? > > This could be the cause of: > > > > > ed1: device timeout > > I've also seen this. I've found the cause of this is that > some NE2000 cards > require a cable (link signal) be present, otherwise it churns > out timeout > errors. (This used to wreak havoc when my cable or DSL modem would go > offline during the night, filling up the log file with timeouts.) The cable is plugged in and I do have a link light on my switch. Any other ideas? Thanks, Drew > -- > Matthew Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message