Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:12:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jian Peng <jaypeng@crab.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: ed0: device timeout Message-ID: <199808050412.VAA00385@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 22:37:46 EDT." <35C7C57A.961BC90D@crab.rutgers.edu>
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> Hello all, > > I have been trying to get a pcmcia ethernet card to work with FreeBSD > 2.2.6-RELEASE for months, and I have no luck yet. Hopefully someone will > help me out. > My laptop is a Acer Extensa 392c with Texas Instrument PCI Cardbus 1250 > Controller. The two cards I tried are DAYNA Communicard E and ACCTON > EN2216-2. Both are NE2000 clone and on the PAO supporting list. I bought > the ACCTON card 2 weeks ago. Mr. Sizemore succeeded in getting a ACCTON > EN2216 (don't know -1 or -2) to work with a Acer Extensa 390 so I had > lots of hope on this one. (about the difference: I think the 392c and > 390 are quite the same; ACCTON EN2216-1 is a 10Base-T model, ACCTON > EN2216-2 is a 10BaseT and 10Base2 Duo, autodetect under win95). The 2216 autodetects in hardware. (I used to use one). > What he > did is installing PAO patch by default and it works immediately. PAO is not necessary for this. I generally ignore messages referring to PAO because I don't run it and thus can't help with it. > I tried the same thing, either card was probed successfully. Name of the > card and right physical address was displayed. Then when I brought the > card up, I would always have a "ed0: device timeout" message. I even > could not ping my gateway. Either you are not receiving interrupts, or your cabling is busted. > There are someting I have tried: > I tried to change the port, irq for pcic0 and ed0. First I tried to > follow all the information given by win95, then I found it makes no > difference. One interesting thing is: under win95, the controller is on > irq 9 and ethercard is on irq 10. However under FreeBSD, the only way I > got the card probed is assigning them the same irq. This may result in the card being probed, but it will never work like this. The card *must* have a different interrupt. > I tried irq 10 and > irq 5 and I can not tell the difference. Though under win95 my build-in > sound card uses the irq 5. This means that IRQ 5 is not available, and you can't use it for PCCARDs. > So please help. If you need more information about my computer, please > email me at jaypeng@crab.rutgers.edu. Simple: let the pcic take the interrupt it's given. Fill in the resource list in /etc/pccard.conf with the resources that are really free. Insert the card. That's all it takes to make the 2216 work. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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