From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 8:49:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCEE14D4E for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 08:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id QAA22548; Tue, 11 May 1999 16:45:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id QAA05008; Tue, 11 May 1999 16:46:24 +0100 (BST) from exchange.nectech.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QAA05008 (2.4-8.8.8/3.1.31); Tue, 11 May 1999 16:46:24 +0100 (BST) Received: by exchange.nectech.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Tue, 11 May 1999 16:45:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'FreeBSD questions'" Cc: "'cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk'" Subject: RE network card Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:45:57 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Peter, I had this problem once with an NE2000 clone. It's probably due to an incorrect irq setting. The port setting must be correct because dmesg reports the hardware address. Is it a plug and play card? If you are using coax (10-Base T) another possibility might be that your cable is incorrectly terminated. It's more likely to be the IRQ though. Jeff Peter Kok wrote: >Hello > >i still confuse the network card > >from the dmesg: > >ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 10 on isa >ed0: address 00:00:b4:3f:ed:3c, type NE2000 (16 bit) > >but i also get the message: even though i set 'ifconfig 192.4.1.154 >255.255.255.0 >ed0: device timeout and interface 192.4.1.154 does not exist? > >pls explain to me > >thank you very much >Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message