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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.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Switching Ethernet Cards Date: 25 Jun 1996 21:22:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4qpla8$juf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <roy-1906961616510001@206.53.164.230> <31C8E5A7.6AEC@www.play-hookey.com> <roy-2006961101470001@206.53.164.230> <4qjoag$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qki69$nb0@samba.rahul.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> wrote: > 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. Hmm, that's strange. > 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. Software or hardware configurable WD8003? For the soft version, you need an EZsetup program from SMC in order to activate the AUI port. The hard-configurable version has got two jumpers next to the fat voltage doubler (big ``blackbox'' in the middle of the card). Of course, a mis-selected interface port (AUI vs. BNC vs. UTP) will also cause the "device timeout" message, as well as a broken on-board transceiver. (That's the most common hardware failure on many cards.) -- 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. ;-)