From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 0: 6:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF38837B416 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 00:06:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAH86MS28827 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:06:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23323 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:06:22 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 76218 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Nov 2001 08:06:19 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:06:19 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: John Hansen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4 with a NE2000 nic and problems... Message-ID: <20011117090619.A74475@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: John Hansen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org References: <3BF5D667.14703E08@wwti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BF5D667.14703E08@wwti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:15:51PM -0600, John Hansen wrote: > Greetings. I have an ISA NE2000 nic card in my 486 dx4-100. I'm > attempting to install FreeBSD 4.4 with two boot > floppies, and a freebsd4.4.install.iso cd-rom. > > I finally figured out how to get the setting in the kernel to match > those on the nic. I set the jumpers to 0x300, and > irq 5, because that is what the kernel has liked best from the start. In > other words, reguardless of settings, I could > get the kernel to report that a 'ed0' interface was present, and even > configure it, but not work. I've set the jumpers > now, and I still can't get it to work. I am still recieving a message of > 'date machine /kernel: ed0: device timeout' > > I was wondering if anyone had any insight into this problem, because > It's getting very old. :P Have you tried actually *using* it? That message doesn't necessarily mean anything is wrong. I get the same message from my NE2000-compatible NICs whenever I turn on the computer without anything attached to the other end of the network cable. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message