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Date:      Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:23:51 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ethernet peculiarity
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705121406.26585A-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz>

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Hi all,

I just put FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE on a Pentium 133 box, 8M RAM, Intel 82439
PCI chipset, Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA bridge.

Everything looks normal, and yet I have had a complete inability to get
either 3c509 or NE2000-clone ethernet cards to function. The following
example is from the NE2000 clone, but the 3c509 symptoms were identical
(but with the ep driver). I tried three different 3c509 cards with the
same results.

Basically, the machine appears to boot and identify the card, but I get
repeated kernel messages of "ed0: device timeout".

dmesg reveals:

  ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 flags 0x4 on isa
  ed0: address 00:c0:58:20:bg:16, type NE2000 (16 bit)

This results from a kernel configuration of:

  device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 flags 0x04 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr

I have tried this without the flags parameter, and with a flags parameter
of 0x02. Same result. This card is an ExpertLan INET2000, which works on
win95 as an NE2000. The manufacturer's setup utility confirms the card is
working, and is set for port 0x300, irq 10 (with no memory-mapped I/O).

This may well be a completely inappropriate list for this (in which case
"sorry"); however, I _was_ interested in what could cause a generic
kernel-wide ethernet (or ISA?)  failure in a machine.

What is going on?


Joe

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Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>      Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008
Network Architect, CLEAR Net                      http://www.clear.net.nz/



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