From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 12:10:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E1214FB4 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26492; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:07:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:07:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeff Hamilton Cc: Jeff Hamilton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Dowdal Subject: Re: Network problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jeff Hamilton wrote: > > > xl0 <3Com 3c905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 48 int a irq 5 on > > > pci0:19:0 > > > fxp0 rev 5 int a irq 9 on > > > pci0:20:0 > > > > Verify that no devices are occupying IRQ 5 or 9 that aren't recognized by > > FreeBSD. Also try shuffling the order of PCI cards on your bus, and avoid > > using the bottom-most slot (closest to the ISA slots). > > IRQ 5 and 9 were both shown as unused by the system bios before I > installed the 2 NIC's. FreeBSD recognizes all devices in the system, and > there are no conflicts with any of them listed in the dmesg output. (at > least none that I see) Thats the thing, something may be there (like the onboard soundcard) that FreeBSD doesn't detect. Try locking out IRQs 5 and 9 in the BIOS setup to force the PCI resource assigner to something else. > I'll try switching the card order. Unfortunately, this motherboard only > has 2 PCI slots, with the IDE/Floppy/Video/sound cards built-in. I have > to use the PCI slot next to the ISA slots (it's actually a shared PCI/ISA > slot). What CPU does this thing have? > Which card is better to use with FreeBSD, the 3com905B or the Intel > EtherExpress Pro? I may remove 1 of the PCI cards, and put my old 3com509 > ISA card back in. The Pro is a *much* better card if you can help it. The xl driver isn't up to the caliber of the fxp driver. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message