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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:48:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dan Williams <dan@bigw.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: network cards
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407124755.26799E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980406215535.7938A-100000@buckwheat>

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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Dan Williams wrote:

> I have recently put together a FreeBSD machine, and had some problems with
> networking.  First, I had 2.2.2 on it, and used an Infotek NE2000
> compatible network card.  Everything was connected fine, and link lights
> wer glowing.  But the device timed out, as in ed1: kenel/device timeout.
> This happened with a number of different NE2000 compatible cards.

Hm, ed1. Is this a PCI card?  Check that the interrupt it's getting
assigned isn't being hogged by another device.

> Next, I put on 2.2.5 with a 3Com 3C509.  This was connected, but there was
> no link light on the hub it was connected to.  It also froze the machine
> when running an Ifconfig on the ep0 driver.  We are running 10BaseT.

Bad cable?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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