From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 12:35:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08703 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 12:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kagg2.kagg.gy-edu.kalmar.se (www.kagg.gy-edu.kalmar.se [193.45.113.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08696 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 12:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muton (du121-90.ppp.algonet.se [195.100.90.121]) by kagg2.kagg.gy-edu.kalmar.se (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA08503; Tue, 13 May 1997 21:33:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 21:35:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Lars Jorgensen X-Sender: root@muton To: Tim Oneil cc: Steve Howe , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed net card question In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970513114709.009f7750@visigenic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk /Lars Jorgensen Student On Tue, 13 May 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > 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 Do you have the networkcard hocked into a LAN? I hade the same problem the only thing I did to solve it was I booted with -c and then disabled the card