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From: Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Switching Ethernet Cards
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:58:17 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Lines: 35
Message-ID: <4qki69$nb0@samba.rahul.net>
References: <roy-1906961616510001@206.53.164.230> <31C8E5A7.6AEC@www.play-hookey.com> <roy-2006961101470001@206.53.164.230> <4qjoag$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In <4qjoag$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>It's in the FAQ. Your IRQ setting of the board and the kernel don't
>match. Assuming it's a soft configurable NE2k clone, use the setup
>program that ships with it, and select an interrupt you can actually
>use. (Really, do use this program. I've seen cards of this type that
>ship with IRQ 3 enabled, this would clash with the second serial
>port.)
I have a similar problem but am unable to determine the cause (and I have
seen the FAQ entry). I've tried three different interrupts, two port
addresses, and two i/o addresses, to no avail. I even disabled my serial
port that uses IRQ3 (on the serial card and in the kernel) and tried that
interrupt for the ethernet card. I always get the same result: the card is
probed at boot time, but "ed0: device timeout" is reported whenever I try to
use it. The LEDs on the card and hub flash every two seconds; from looking
at if_ed.c, it appears that the driver resets the card after two seconds if
it doesn't see the behavior it expects.
I don't have the detailed ethernet or unix device driver knowledge to fix
the problem, but I would be more than happy to provide any details or test
results that might help. The card I'm using is an IBM Valuepoint 10baseT
(ISA 16 bit).
Also, I borrowed a WD8003E card and got the same result. I'm not sure I
had all the jumpers set correctly though, as I have no documentation for
that card. It was reported correctly at boot time. That one has AUI and
coax connectors, so I had a transciever and 10baseT cable attached to the
AUI port. The IRQ jumper pins are labelled, so I'm reasonably confident
that part was correct.
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