Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:27:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Karl Heller <kheller2@mac.com> To: oniblerz@attbi.com (John Nielsen) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kheller2@mac.com (Karl Heller) Subject: Re: EtherExpress 16 not probed at boot on 4.5R Message-ID: <200204260327.g3Q3R9v35078@68.81.163.54> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "John Nielsen" at Apr 24, 2002 01:34:20 PM
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> Thanks for the patch. It does detect the card now. However, the system is now a bit unstable. It won't shutdown properly.. never gets to the "press any key to reboot" screenk and has a page fault every now and then. Not sure if this is related to the patch or not. But I was surprised to see the dates from 2000. Karl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karl Heller" <kheller2@mac.com> > To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:39 AM > Subject: EtherExpress 16 not probed at boot on 4.5R > > Hello, > > > > I posted a bug report about this but haven't heard anything back. I'll > > post here instead. =) > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37240 > > > > I have a Intel EtherExpress 16 that will not probe on boot, or with a > > custom kernel. However, under 3.4R it does find it. I'm just switching > > boot floppies and notice this. I've since installed 4.5R using CDRom, > > however, I'd like to get it working. Any thoughts or anyone want to help > > debug this one. There was a previous bug report for another version with > > similar problems but the issue was dropped. > > > > Please respond via email as I'm having some problems getting on the stable > > email list. > > There was a thread about this a while ago on the newsgroup (the subject was > "Ether16 NIC" if you want to look it up on google). Martin Birgmeier posted > a patch which I successfully applied to a -stable machine and got my card > working. I'm attaching a copy of Martin's patch so you can use it. > > To the list: PR kern/16937 is marked as closed even though this is an issue > with -stable. There may be other PR's on this issue as well, but I don't > know if any of them have patches included. If one of you wants to > submit/test/commit this I think that would be great. > > JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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