Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:49:08 -0800 From: Joseph Maxwell <jaymax@ns.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <3C020204.D3081058@ns.net> References: <001d01c17653$2959d200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Sounds like that may be the problem. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Very few DX2's I've encountered had PCI buses so I'm almost positive you > have an ISA NE2000 in the system even though you don't say so. You are correct - A Netgear EA201 16 bit ISA > > What your looking at is a classic "unseized interrupt" and is almost > always caused by a mismatch between the interrupt that the > card is using and the one that FreeBSD is using. You must look at the > jumpers or run the softset utility for the card under DOS to determine > what IRQ it's using, then tell the FreeBSD system in userconfig during the > boot process to use that interrupt. > > If the FreeBSD system and the card both agree on IRQ 10 then set them > both to some other IRQ, as what's happening is that on your system something > else is using IRQ10 and not letting it go (soundcard, perhaps?) So this involves rebuilding of the kernel, am I correct? > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Joseph Maxwell [mailto:jaymax@ns.net] > >Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 4:27 PM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt > >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: Promiscuous mode? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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