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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Ethernet card give time out message
Date: 2 Mar 1995 15:08:46 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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william flusek (flusekw@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
:
: I am having a very similar problem with my SMC ethernet card.  I see
: that FreeBSD sees the card while it is booting up, but whenever I do
: anything that tries to access the card I get nothing but timeouts.  The
: card is setup as 0x280, irq 3, mem 0xd8000.

    Including ifconfig?  It will complain if it times out accessing
your network interface.  Which device are you using?  Should be ed0,
judging by your port address/IRQ settings.  Browse you 'dmesg' output
and make sure that your card and the kernel agree on those settings.

: Any help, suggestions, configs, etc would be much appreciated.  I am
: seeing traffic (according to the RX light on the card).  

    Doesn't mean the traffic is coming from your machine.