Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:09:05 +1000 From: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: "Guy" <guy@lisp.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network Cards Message-ID: <01bdb9f6$9b4c3c80$a41a1acb@gretchen>
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From: Guy <guy@lisp.com.au>
When I was setting up FreeBSD it was the NIC cards that gave me the
biggest and longest headache. Like you I was using an NE2000 ed0 card.
Some pointers as requested:
1 Figure out what interrupt FreeBSD thinks the ed0 card is on (you say
it is IRQ 10 ...) then use the disk that came with the card to check
that the card really is set to IRQ10 in its CMOS, and set to simplex,
not
duplex. You'll have to boot up from a DOS floppy to do this :(.
Turn off Pnp while you're at it.
2 Turn off Pnp in system CMOS for the IRQ that the card is on.
(delete key on boot).
3 Do you know how to compile a custom kernel? I actually have my ed0
card
set to IRQ 5 in the kernel, on the card's CMOS, and in the system
CMOS.
4 "Device timeouts" are often caused by faulty connectors/flyleads/hubs
not on.
Probably check this *FIRST*.
5 ed1 is an NE2000 card in the PCI bus. If you have an ed0 device in the
kernel
it often requires no further configuration.
6 It should work. I now have one NE2000 card in the ISA bus and two on
the PCI
bus, and route between three LANs. FTP gets up to 800 k/sec.
>Hi,
>I have just re-installed freebsd, and my network card is not working
>correctly (which it was prior to the re-install), the only difference
>being that i added a scsi card and 2 scsi hard drives. None of which are
>using irq ,dma, or ports which are used by other peripherals. I have set
>it up correctly in the kernal configuration, to its correct settings
>(irq 10 port 0x6000), but on boot (when the system is setting the
>default gateway )i get the msg ed0: Device timeout. On the next line
>after this i get - ed1: NIC Memory corrupt - inv alid packet length 64..
>I have only the one network card. Another strange thing is that ed1 does
>not appear in the kernel configuration, although it is present in the
>network configuration in /stand/sysinstall. I have been looking
>everywhere for what is causing this problem but to no avail. So if
>anyone can help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated.
>Regards
>Guy Coble
Good luck.
Eddie.
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