Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:44:16 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl Cc: John Holland <john@zoner.org>, ps@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs Message-ID: <l0313030ab5817d075af2@[194.32.164.2]> In-Reply-To: <20000626163623.A60970@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>; from john@zoner.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400 <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>
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At 16:36 +0200 26/6/00, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: >On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote: >> Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a new >> kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed* >> devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs). Before this, the system was >> working perfectly. >> >> Did something break in the ed driver in the two months since I last built >> the system from source? >> >On 06/17 there was a change in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c, which causes my ISA >NE2000 compatible to hang at boot time, just like in your case.[etc] "Me too" (on -current). This is actually a reversion: if_ed.c: >revision 1.170 >date: 1999/11/01 01:16:56; author: jmb; state: Exp; lines: +22 -18 > rearrange order of tests for NE1000, NE2000, and Linksys > cards. previous order caused computers with NE2000 cards > to hang during boot. Backing up to if_ed.c 1.180 fixes it here, and I can't immediately see how the 1.181 change alters things for Linksys (except possibly for timing). -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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