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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: ed1 device timeout on NE2000 compat. card X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <Dsvxsx.LCq@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <eharley-0406960711200001@198.81.209.41> <4phoeg$4n0@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:41:21 GMT Lines: 37 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : "David M. Fogarty" <DaveChaos@aol.com> wrote: : > And yes, I am POSITIVE that the settings are correct. Everything is : > recognized correctly by the kernel as well but it still gives the device : > timeout a short while later.... *sigh* : The kernel doesn't autodetect the IRQ setting, it simply echoes what : it has configured in it, and claims this being The Only Truth. So a : successfully detected card does mean that the port address is okay, : and that the shared memory address is okay (for cards that support : shared mem), but it does _not_ mean the IRQ is really okay. David is right -- this is possible. I've seen this several times on NE2000 clones when they were starting to die slowly. Damn beast can work nice for months, but at 22:00 Friday it starts throwing that messages and your weekend goes to shit because of it -- you go to office, scratch your head, reboot with power cycle several times... when it goes crazy again, your'e starting to look at a replacement but that's a weekend... :) : -- : 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. ;-) -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.