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From: crn@netix.org.uk (C. Newport)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: problem:WD8003E on a pentium
Date: 6 Aug 1996 02:40:00 -0000
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Jining Tian (jtian@cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
: Hi, there:

: I'm trying a ftp installation of netbsd on a pentium box. I'm using a
: WD8003E ethernet board, IRQ 9, IO 280, RAM D0000. It is correctly 
: detected at boot time, but when I want to ftp or ping, it complains:
: "ed0: device time out". I had set the address and the route correct.
: I also tried to use other SMC cards, but there is noway to configure
: them to use IRQ 9 except software approaches( correct me if I'm wrong).
: Does anyone has similar experience?

IRQ9 is an alias for IRQ2, what is on IRQ2 ?
Looks like you have an IRQ conflict.

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