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Date:      Fri, 30 May 1997 10:54:29 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pvl@nanoteq.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ed0 : device timeout
Message-ID:  <199705300124.KAA22812@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199705291506.RAA01207@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> from Pierre Van Leeuwen at "May 29, 97 05:06:46 pm"

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Pierre Van Leeuwen stands accused of saying:
> Hi 
> 
> I wrote to questions about this earlier, but that didn't solve my
> problem.
> 
> I get the following message :
> ed0 : device timeout

The ususal reasons for this are :

 - you have an IRQ mismatch, in that the card is set to one value, and
   the driver another.
 - you have a cabling/termination problem on your network.
 - your card is faulty.

> It doesn't seem to be fatal all the time though.

Sounds like cabling - a bad RJ/BNC connector, T-piece, terminator or
hub port.

> Pierre_Andre van Leeuwen

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