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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!netaxs.com!grr From: grr@shandakor.tharsis.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't use net cards upon install Date: 7 Apr 1997 02:02:31 GMT Organization: George's Pet Unix System Lines: 31 Message-ID: <slrn5kglbc.avt.grr@shandakor.tharsis.com> References: <334813C6.D23@intermind.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: robbins.jvnc.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.1.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5772 In article <334813C6.D23@intermind.com>, Steve Mushero wrote: >We're trying to do a simple NetBSD install on a few intel machines, but >can never get the ethernet cards to work. We've tried several machines >with ISA & PCI busses, plus ne2000 and 3com cards - all the same >result. Tried it with OpenBSD, too, same thing. > >We get 'ed0 device timeout' errors and/or no communications at all on an >ne2000. On a 3com board, we get only host is down errors. We You might want to check that the addresses and interrupts on the cards are set up to match what's specified in the installation notes. Hardware jumpers perferred, but if the card only has soft config, you might have to set that up with a dos utility. Also check i/f selection if there's a choice of thin-wire/aui/tp, etc. >Basically, we do the boot, hard disk format, fs setup, etc. and are >ready to get the rest of the distribution. We do an ifconfig ed0 to set >the ip address and everything looks great - the interface is up and >running with the right mask, status - everything looks normal. Ping or >anything else just dies on anything except 127.0.0.1, which I think >worked at some point, but on OpenBSD gives strange queue errors. 127.0.0.1 is a local loop that never touches the hardware... That's just what I seem to recall - no/wrong interrupts and the everything looks fine, but nothing ever happens. -- George Robbins - not working for, work: to be avoided at all costs... but still emotionally attached to: web: http://www.netaxs.com/people/grr Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@tharsis.com