From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 9 19:26:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA01370 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:26:25 -0800 Received: from nile.intac.com (root@nile.intac.com [198.6.114.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA01364 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:26:23 -0800 From: rjb@intac.com Received: from [198.6.114.79] (slip-ppp29.intac.com [198.6.114.79]) by nile.intac.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA12645 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 22:26:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 22:26:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199501100326.WAA12645@nile.intac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Network reached with 3com 3c503 with some strange problems... Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, just thought I'd let you know that FreeBSD sees the 3com 3c503 board (finally). I'm using I/O base 0x300 at location 0xd8000 IRQ 5. I had to set the memory location by moving the jumper from 'disabled' to 0xd8000. From documentation I've seen I thought the setting in the kernel config would take care of this - apparently not. This hardware config causes the Kernel to enable 'ed1'. During bootup I see that ed1 is 'attached' and the network gateway to my host is reached, well, sort of... After the boot process, just after I get a login prompt, I get "host ed1 timed out". This *doesn't* seem to happen after every boot. When it doesn't happen, I'm able to ping my host just fine. When it does I get "host ed1 is down" and a -1 from ping. I'm totally lost on this one... All I can tell you about my kernel config that's different from generic is that bpfilter is set to 16. I don't think this should matter. I'm planning on running CAP's and was recently told to set this value for the filter. Also my ifconfig line in /etc/netstart is: ifconfig ed1 inet $hostname -link0 $hostname is, of course, the address of my host interface defined in /etc/hosts. -link0 is supposed to cause the board to use the AUI interface, 10baseT. I got a hunch that this problem is somehow related to the ifconfig arguments. Do you think I might have better luck setting the base to 0x280 and pick up 'ed0'? Does it make a difference? Any suggestions? Thanks Bob Badaracco