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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
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