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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!usenet From: Youth Internship Program <yip@cdngateway.pe.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with ethernet cards......(sound familiar?:) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 09:18:49 -0700 Organization: University of New Brunswick Lines: 40 Message-ID: <319B5569.61F@cdngateway.pe.ca> References: <3193736E.576F@cdngateaway.pe.ca> <4n20ru$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: carsenault.rc.hollandc.pe.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) J Wunsch wrote: > > Youth Internship Program <yip@cdngateaway.pe.ca> wrote: > > > I am having one problem tho, I have 2 > > ethernet cards, an Intel EthernetExpress pro 10 and a D-link 220. In the > > supported list, the intel card comes up as supported, however when i boot > > from the latest snap floppy, it can't find it. > > The EtherExpress16 is supported by the `ix' driver. The EtherExpress > Pro/100B PCI is supported by the `fxp' driver. > > > With the d-link card, it isn't supported in > > the list, however i set the card up for nec2000 emulation. When booting > > up from the stable floppy, it recognizes it as ed1, however when any > > network attempts are made, the card times out. > > Likely an interrupt problem. You mentioned a soundblapper, note that > many sound cards implicitly use IRQ7. The best interrupt (in the low > range) for an Ethernet card is normally 5. (1 is the internal clock, > 2(9) is used by EGA and some VGAs, 3 and 4 are serial ports, 5 is the > second printer, but mostly unused for this purpose, 6 is the floppy, 7 > is the first printer.) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Ok I tried the software jumpers on the d-link card, it was a no go and there isn't any hardware jumper settings on it for irq setting. As for the Intel pro 10, well on the latest snap, the boot recognizes it as a pci??? (screen goes by too fast :) on interupt 11 as an ethernet card and says no driver loaded. I disabled everything else, except the probing for the card and the floppy controllers, and it still wouldn't load the driver. Will the ix driver work on the pro 10? I have a pro 100, had some problems at first, but the march snap worked lickedly split. Grasping at straws here :), the network set up here at school isn't the friendliest atmosphere :).