From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 14:41:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29641 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firebat.wolfepub.com (firebat.wolfepub.com [206.250.193.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29634 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:41:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew@wolfepub.com) Received: from ricecake.fastnet0.net (grxa8-ppp42.triton.net [209.172.4.42]) by firebat.wolfepub.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA24395; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980616174631.03160de4@wolfepub.com> X-Sender: matthew@wolfepub.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:46:31 -0400 To: Stephen Derdau From: Matthew Hagerty Subject: Re: ed1: device timeout? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.19980616152107.03261b14@wolfepub.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The card is a PCI card, I can't set its IRQ :( There are no other PCI *cards* in the machine. Matthew >What you want ot look for is an irq or i/o address confilict >What type of card do you have and what are the settings? > >For example to configure an ne2000 card one could >say check the settings from dos using the setup software >that comes with the card. Here one can change the settings >etc. > >Then after all this information is either remembered or >written down one can boot Freebsd. >At the boot : type in -c and go to visual mode >Here one would check the network settings. >For the device say ed0 usually 3 settings. >i/o address >irq >and memory address. >If these look good for your card exit out , finish boooting >and >run dmesg and see where a potential confilict can be. >After you log in at command line type dmesg maybe add | more >so you can page through it. >I hope this helps you out. I'm a newbie at this stuff. >However, I have gone through much of the same things and >maybe I can help you out a little this time. >Someone else may also respond who has more knowledge and >better writting skills than myself. :-) > >Till then I'll keep chugging along and learning as I go. >All thanks to FreeBSD > FreeBSD When It Matters >Thank You > >/sd > >On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I have a PCI ethernet card that seems to be found by the kernel with no >> problem, but as soon as the statup ifconfigs the the device (ed1), I get >> the error: >> >> ed1: device timeout >> >> displayed. What should I be looking at to fix this? Hardware, setup, bad >> card, etc.?? >> >> Thanks, >> Matthew >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message