Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:36:14 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: tucker@mdso.vf.ge.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linksys Ether16 NE2000 card problems Message-ID: <199501272036.MAA00898@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jan 95 10:37:35 EST." <9501271537.AA09172@sde832.mdso.vf.ge.com>
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>Hello, I'm having trouble getting the above mentioned NE2000 compat. card >to work in a new FreeBSD 2.0 system. The card is configured with base_port >at 0x300, and IRQ 5. It seems to be probed correctly and is detected as >a 16 bit card (correct). The machine is relatively empty, and I'm sure >there is no other card installed on conflicting addresses/IRQ's. >The machine is a 386/25 with 4MB mem. (Small I know, but it won't be >running a Window sys...) > >Symptoms: > "ping's" to other machines on the network seem fine - no dropped packets or > unreasonable delays. > "telnet" out works ok for short (2 minutes) periods, and then freezes. No > characters typed on console appear on screen. ^C or ^D does nothing. > ^\ causes seg fault (only way to exit...) > "ftp" works (and fails) the same as telnet. > >I only have the minimal binaries installed... I'm trying to ftp the bindist >without much luck as you can imagine... This might be caused by a bug in the (2.0) driver that was fixed a few weeks ago. Unfortunately there have been many changes to the driver, some of which will make it not backward source compatible with 2.0. The simple remedy would be to upgrade to the _next_ snapshot (the current snapshot is very broken). I'm expecting this to be available in less than a week. -DG
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