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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?


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