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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:42:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   breakage with two ed network devices
Message-ID:  <14804.65209.8908.316746@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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Hello all,

This morning I was upgrading my 4.1-STABLE gateway to 4.1.1-STABLE. I followed
all 'official' procedures to the letter like I've done a million times
before. Everything built and installed just fine, but when I rebooted the
kernel, it did not probe my first network card, ed0. However, it did probe
ed1.

This, of course, reeked all sorts of havoc since I use DHCP on ed0 to get
hooked up to the world via @home.

I rebooted and went into the configuration editor. It showed that both ed0,
and ed1 devices were there and "enabled." I exit the config editor and
continue the boot, and nothing--just ed1 is "seen."

So, I reboot /kernel.old and it does see ed0 and ed1 but panics with the
4.1.1-STABLE world when starting mountd (I'm guessing the changes in libkvm a
while back--this was a 4.1-STABLE system of about 40 days ago or so??). But,
at least the 4.1-S kernel still probed and attached ed0 + ed1.

To make a horrifically long story short, I ended up installing a 4.1-RELEASE
world, kernel, and /etc (with the same custom config file of course) and now
things are working again. So, something within the last 40 days has affected
how my two NICs are probed and attached.

I don't have access to the machine right now (at the same time all this crap
happened my cable modem and/or line to the house has died and even though both
interfaces are up I'm 'dead' until the @home people can come out to do some
diagnostics) otherwise I would send dmesg output along with the kernel
config., etc. 

However, does anybody have any ideas as to why ed1 would be probed and not ed0
even after they both show up in the visual config editor during "boot -c"?

Another related question--I tried "boot -v" to see if that garnered any clues
and there was so much stuff that whizzed by after that section of the boot, I
couldn't use ScrollLock + PgUp anymore. How can you increase that buffer?

Once I get my connectivity to the world back, I'm going to try and nail down
about when things start screwing up--I'm just fishing for clues. Who else in
the world is running two NE2000 clones on ed0, and ed1 with 4.1.1-STABLE?

-Jr

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