From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 00:01:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA21989 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (root@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA21984 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from subzero (moke@subzero.winternet.com [198.174.169.6]) by icicle.winternet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id CAA15903 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 02:01:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from moke@localhost) by subzero (8.7.4/8.6.12) id CAA19576; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 02:01:16 -0500 (CDT) Posted-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 02:01:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 02:01:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Area 51 To: John Hay Subject: Re: Old Gateway Ethernet card In-Reply-To: <199607230422.GAA17529@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, John Hay wrote: > > Well here is my problem. I have recently converted from Linux to freebsd > > 2.1.5-release on my pentium system. The problem is that i cannot get the > > ethernet card I have to work. I believe it is a Gateway ethernet card > > and it works under Linux 1.2.13 as a ne2000 compatible, but in new linux > > kernels it locks on detection on every other boot. The problem in FreeBSD > > is that it the system locks up on detection on every boot. The card is > > currently on 0x300 irq11 and there is no conflicts with either the > > address or irq that I am aware of. I have tried defining GW_ETHER which i > > ^^^^^^^^ > > noticed while reading the if_ed.c file and that did not work either. I > > believe this problem is stemming from how many cards the ne1000/ne2000 > > driver is trying to detect, and this old card may not handle it well. I'm > > open for suggestions... > > > > > > Just to make sure. Did you spell it with the "_" or without it? It should > be "options GWETHER" in the kernel config file. Over the years I did find > that different motherboards greatly influenced the Gateway ethernet card. > I had some motherboards where it worked even if I didn't define GWETHER > and then others didn't want to work without it. The reset code that you > get by defineing GWETHER is the same as that being used by the Gateway > ipx drivers a long time ago. Maybe our DELAY got a bit shorter over the > years. Try to make the DELAY(200) just after the reset longer and see > what happen. > > John yep I did spell it GWETHER, just mispelled it in the post. I'll try that delay thing hopefully it works. Thanks.