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Subject: Re: ifconfig hang with fxp board
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> I just installed a new fxp board in my 2.2.5 system
> 
>    ifconfig fxp0 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
> 
> hangs the OS. Even the virtual consoles don't work.
> Does this board need to be initialized with a vendor utility to set
> interrupts, etc?

  No, your motherboard gives PCI cards IRQs to use.

  Are you sure the card isn't just DOA?  Happens too often these days...

  Is the card detected during boot?  Should show your the IRQ then.

> thanks
> 
> joe

Tom