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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 21:35:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lars Jorgensen <root@kagg.gy-edu.kalmar.se>
To:        Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com>
Cc:        Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ed net card question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970513213419.883A-100000@muton>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970513114709.009f7750@visigenic.com>

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/Lars Jorgensen
Student

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Tim Oneil wrote:

> Steave wrote:
> >i'm not quite sure what you mean by "timing out".  i'm no expert, but the
> >only way i can imagine anything timimg out is to have so many busy IRQs
> >below the ethernet card that it can do anything in sufficient time.
> >i guess at IRQ15, that might be possible!  hehe!  in general, you don't
> >want any drives below any communication devices, or anything that hogs big
> >chunks of time.
> 
> Well, after the system has been up for like three minutes or so I
> get a message on the console; device ed0 timed out.
> Then I get messages consisting of; Last message repeated 3 times
> thereafter. Over and over again.
> 
> >> >the pc has no UARTs on board?
> >> Its an AMD bios 486 board. I have a serial card on it for serial
> >> stuff.
> >
> >i guess that means no?
> 
> Heh. Yeah. Er, no.
> 
> -Tim

Do you have the networkcard hocked into a LAN? I hade the same problem the
only thing I did to solve it was I booted with -c and then disabled the
card




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