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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:47:09 -0700
To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: ed net card question
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Steave wrote:
>i'm not quite sure what you mean by "timing out".  i'm no expert, but the
>only way i can imagine anything timimg out is to have so many busy IRQs
>below the ethernet card that it can do anything in sufficient time.
>i guess at IRQ15, that might be possible!  hehe!  in general, you don't
>want any drives below any communication devices, or anything that hogs big
>chunks of time.

Well, after the system has been up for like three minutes or so I
get a message on the console; device ed0 timed out.
Then I get messages consisting of; Last message repeated 3 times
thereafter. Over and over again.

>> >the pc has no UARTs on board?
>> Its an AMD bios 486 board. I have a serial card on it for serial
>> stuff.
>
>i guess that means no?

Heh. Yeah. Er, no.

-Tim