From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 16:55:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA16833 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.brann.org ([207.122.63.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16824 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:55:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by freebie.brann.org (8.8.4/8.8.2) id TAA10656; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:54:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703030054.TAA10656@freebie.brann.org> Subject: Re: Need some help with ethernet card configuration In-Reply-To: <331A3E98.3F26@internetuniverse.com> from George Hegyes at "Mar 2, 97 06:59:36 pm" To: ceo@internetuniverse.com (George Hegyes) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:54:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk George Hegyes wrote... [SNIP] > > The ethernet card is an LINKSYS Ether 16 Lan Card (Plug & Play) this > card is NE2000 COMPATIBLE. > > The card is set at 0x300 on irq 10, the system is linked to an windows > 95 machine with Thin Coax Cable with terminators. > > I can not get the cards (I have tried several including two differnt > brands) to come up without a timeout error. This generally indicates EITHER bad cable or wrong IRQ. > > I have configured the card using the software that came with them, I > have > set the mode from Plug & Play to Jumperless. > > There are no reported conflicts that I know of, I have placed the "?" in > the irq area in the kernals configuation file, the kernal builds without > a problem. > > Can you offer me some help this is driving me crazy. > I have a couple of (cheap) Linksys Ether16 cards - though I don't think they're PnP. The IRQ they use by default is 3 (! - used by sio1), so you might want to go back to the config to set them to a more sensible value, 5 0r 10 should be OK. As a first cut, you migh try disabling si01 and tweaking the ed0 config to use IRQ 3 in a '-c' boot. John -- Prohibit work, prohibit pay - people are dying! Situationist International slogan finger jbrann@brann.org for pgp public key