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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ed0 (wd8013EP) timeout with 2.0.5 during ftp install
Date: 18 Sep 1995 04:47:42 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:06:31 GMT) honorable Joe Drumgoole (ERL Hacker), 
residing at joed@hollie wrote:


|I'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a machine which was 
|previously running 1.1.5.1 quite happily. However ed0 (a WD8013EP) keeps
|timing out when it it is touched by any sort of network command. It is 
|hardwired (via the board jumpers) to port 0x280 and irq 3. I therefore us
|boot -c to configure these options prior to boot however it still timeout
|although the kernel detects the card at boot time.

Welcome to the club! I tried both cards ones. I was explained there is a
problem with motherboard chip-set (yours must be from Intell too).

|I also have an Intel Ethernet Express card installed in the same machine. 
|I tried boot from that as an alternative but the boot kernel panics as soon
|as it touchs the intel device.
Try to use the multi-pin connector on Intell's card -- that helped me.
Do not forget the link2 option for `ifconfig' for the card (you put it into
/etc/sysconfig file next to the other options of ix0-device). Good luck!
	-mi
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