From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 30 21:38:30 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA05913 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 21:38:30 -0700 Received: from seagull.rtd.com (RTD.COM [192.195.240.142]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA05907 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 21:38:30 -0700 Received: (from tony@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.6.12/8.6.9.1) id VAA13573 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 21:38:29 -0700 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 21:38:29 -0700 From: Tony Message-Id: <199507310438.VAA13573@seagull.rtd.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: ISA Ethernet (ed) probe question Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm having a strange problem with a NE2000 (clone) Ethernet card. I'd appreciate any comments from fellow FreeBSD folks -- thanks tony ------- I have a generic NE2000 clone ("Ether16 LAN Card" - software programmable for IRQ/port). Motherboard/cpu = ASUS P55TP4XE / P90 FreeBSD will only sucessfully probe the card if I have set the IRQ using the Ether16 DOS software during the same power on period. If I power off and on, FreeBSD hangs probing the card i.e 0) Power on 1) Boot DOS off floppy 2) Load Ether16 setup, set IRQ to 5/15, save settings, causes system to reboot -- system boots -- (remove DOS disc) 3) FreeBSD boots and probes card correctly 4) Shutdown -r now 5) FreeBSD boots and probes card correctly 6) Power off 7) FreeBSD hangs probing card (boot with flags=c shows config OK) 8) Power off 9) Boot DOS off floppy 10) Load Ether16 setup, *IRQ IS CORRECT*, save anyway, causes system to reboot -- system boots -- (remove DOS disc) 11) FreeBSD boots and probes card correctly [Problem is independant of IRQ used (I used 5/15), flags and iosize]