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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ed2 device timeouts ne2000 irq10 x300
Date: 11 Feb 1997 16:52:16 GMT
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Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> wrote:

> I get "ed2 timeout" followed by intermittant host down messages when
> pinging.

Not sure about NetBSD, but in FreeBSD, this is a FAQ, and in 99 % of
the cases it's a wrong IRQ.  (I think NE2000s don't allow for auto-
probing the configured IRQ line.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j