From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 6:59:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7831137B406 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:59:27 -0800 (PST) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id f9UExPc08138 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:59:25 +0200 Message-Id: <200110301459.f9UExPc08138@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 30 Oct 01 16:58:40 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:58:28 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: ed0 device timeout X-info: Headers changed by Barricade Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I am putting together a low-end PC to act as a router between two internal (192.168.x.0) networks, running 4.4-RELEASE. I'm having some trouble with network cards. Any card that uses 'ed' driver does not seem to work properly. When I try to ping something through ed0, I get an error message: /kernel: ed0: device timeout. I've done some searching in archives and overwhelming opinion seems to be that this is caused by low-quality network cards that are simply not working properly. This might very well be the case, but I have tried *four* different cards with similar results, whereas I have built several such low-end "router" machines with second-hand junk cards before and have *never* had this problem. Might there be some other cause to these timeout messages besides faulty cards? A note: all machines I've built in the past have been 486-s, this is the first time I'm doing a P5/120. Maybe this is just "too fast"? The cards I've tried (not the best brands, I admit ;-) ) are: ISA Accton EN 1666 ISA D-Link DE220 ISA Noname (don't really know what it is but it works in Win95 and I have identical cards working in other FreeBSD machines) PCI Accton 1208 (with Realtek 8029 chip) All cards are detected fine in dmesg. Is there anything I might try besides digging my supplies for yet another network card? Maybe go to nearest shop and buy a decent NIC (*grin*)? -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message