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From: tim@lundeen.com (Tim Lundeen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ed0: timeout; FAQ says "IRQ conflict", i'm still stumped
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:42:28 GMT
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
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danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) wrote:

<snip>

>> 3.13. My network card keeps getting errors like, ``ed1: timeout''.
>> What's going on?

<snip>

>I've tried both settings for hard config for the card; as my first
>message says, when i set the card to irq 10, the freebsd boot message
>shows it as IRQ 5 (weirdness?)

<snip>

>I tried disabling the second serial port so that there would be no IRQ
>conflict on IRQ 3, and setting the card to that IRQ, no luck.  

>any suggestions as to where to go next?  (to a 3com card, i suppose?)


I had this with some NE2000 clone card, FreeBSD insisted the thing was
on IRQ5 regardless of the facts. I finally solved it by setting the
card to IRQ5, and changing the rest of the system to suit. Worked
fine.


Michael Krieg
Lundeen & Associates
mkrieg@lundeen.com