From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 29 14:47:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07879 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:47:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07869 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:47:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA04943; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:45:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dermot McNally cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with ed driver (PCI) In-Reply-To: <35c03c26.2700750@mail.compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Dermot McNally wrote: > The card is actually sold under the name "Micronet" although it is > recognised as a Realtek chipset. Its little green light goes on, indicating > that it sees the network OK and the corresponding little green light on the > hub comes on too. Windows reports all PCI NE2000s as RealTeks. Can you see what chip is on it? > There is one unusual, and possibly significant issue here - I also have a > 3Com network card (calls itself an Etherlink XL, uses the vx driver). If I > fit this card, and there's a driver for it in the kernel, the machine hangs > after finding the card. The same kernel on a different machine will boot no > problem with this card. I haven't yet tried the other machine with the > NE2000 - it's a 100% NT machine anyway, so it won't help me much, but it's > a useful test. That machine normally runs correctly with the 3Com card. > Very strange. What model 3com? A new driver for the 3com PCI cards was released the other day, you can try it at http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/3Com/. > The spec of the machine that's causing this trouble is now as follows: > > Intel LX chipset, a PII 300MHz, made by Gateway 2000 > NE2000 PCI network card (Realtek via Micronet) > Adaptec UW 2900 SCSI contoller (card, not on board) > One US SCSI HD, 1 SCSI CDROM drive > STP AGP graphics card (Riva 128 chipset) > > That's the lot - I pulled the sound card in case it was a factor. The > problem occurs with kernels from the 5/24/98 snap as well as from (I think) > a 20/7/98 snap I found on ftp.de.freebsd.org but which doesn't seem to be > on the main site. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message