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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ehternet Ne2000 doesn't work Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:32:23 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <327669D7.4501@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32760A67.206E@fpmbh.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Larry Snyder wrote: > > I'm getting strange errors with a ISA NE2000 > clone running the CURRENT 2.1.5 release on a P133 > with 64 megs of EDO RAM -- sometimes the ethernet > board works fine - while others the board is not found - > and other times I get an error message wild irq7 > (I have the ethernet setup for irq 10 @ 300H. > > I've changed boards, kernels, etc... Just a possibility here -- In your CMOS setup menus, make sure that your ISA bus is not running even a little bit faster than 8.000 MHz. For example, a 33 MHz system clock and clock/4 for the ISA bus is still too fast. I had this problem when doing some intensive networking (a la Doom2 deathmatching). One card would always lose sync at some point. Slowing down the ISA bus to below 8 MHz did the trick. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |