Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:12:20 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: John Hansen <phenom@wwti.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4 with a NE2000 nic and problems... Message-ID: <200111170912.fAH9CtY21336@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <3BF5D667.14703E08@wwti.com>
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Hi John! On 16 Nov 01 at 21:15 you wrote: > 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 Couple of weeks ago I was building a FreeBSD based router of an old Pentium PC. In the process I had a chance to read the 'ed0: device timeout' message many times :-) I checked the mailing list archives and the general opinion seems to be that some of those old 'NE2000 compatible' NICs just plain do not work well. They might limp along well enough to work in Windows 95, but FreeBSD's ed driver just does not like them. I tried approximately six 'NE2000 compatible' cards with various results. Some gave the 'device timeout' messages and didn't work at all. Some gave the message and sometimes worked, sometimes not. Some gave the message but seemed to work OK. I finally managed to find two cards that didn't give the 'device timeout' message and worked OK. Conclusion: try another NIC. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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