Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:56:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed: device broken!? (was Re: ed1: device timeout?) Message-ID: <199806180156.SAA00361@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:27:30 EDT." <3.0.3.32.19980617192730.0317ea80@wolfepub.com>
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> Does anyone know if there is a problem with the ed: device driver on > 2.2.6-R? I have a PCI NIC that was giving me a ed1: timeout error. I have > removed *every* card in the system except the video card (on the ISA bus), > changed cables twice, and set the NIC to every IRQ available on the system. > I even disabled the serial and parallel ports to be able to use those IRQs. > > But here is the clincher... I took out the PCI NIC and put in a real > Novell/Eagle NE2000 ISA NIC. It is jumper-less so I used the DOS utility > that came with the card to set the IRQ and base address. Then I booted > with the GENERIC kernel and set ed0: to the correct settings. Now for the > big kick in the a**. Both cards, the PCI and ISA NIC are both NE2000, so > they both use the ed: device and *both* cards give me the ed: timeout > error!! By this time I was banging my head on everything in reach. I have > another ISA NIC (a 3Com) that uses the ep: device and it works fine. Sounds like marginal cabling, or a persistent configuration error. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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