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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need Help with my Network Card Date: 16 Jun 1997 21:05:55 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 54 Message-ID: <01bc7a99$024e4480$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <5nmpl9$437$1@usenet87.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42906 Is this a PCI machine? It is interesting, in the readme file for Win95, it is specifically mentioned that the EE16 will NOT work in a PCI machine with Win95. Since having a bug in the software driver for Win95 would be most embarassing, I can only conclude that it is impossible to write a Win95 driver that will work with the EE16 in a PCI machine due to some hardware bug in the EE16 that can NOT be written around. This would of course be applicable to any FreeBSD driver. I've used these cards in 486/33's with ISA busses, and while they do work fine if the network load is relatively light, under heavy load I've had them stop transmitting, etc. I have seen the Device Timeout error message, but only when the cable to the card was unplugged. Ted Jeremy Freeman <jeremy@vip.net> wrote in article <5nmpl9$437$1@usenet87.supernews.com>... > I seem to be having a strange problem with my Intel Etherxpress 16 ISA on my > FreeBSD v2.2.1 Pentium 120. > > Whenever a stream of network data gets sent or received by the machine, I will > get a series of kernel messages saying ix0: Device Timeout. I thought this was > either an IRQ conflict or Base IO addr. conflict. So I removed everything from > the computer except the Network Card, SCSI Controller, and Video Card. The > Intel Etherxpress is on IRQ 5, Base Address 300x0. Nothing else even comes > close to conflicting with it. Also, if I try and do a flood ping on a device > on the local network I get a message saing sendto: No space left in Buffer. > Funny thing is, network data still transfers to and from the machine, but at a > very slow rate. > > Might this be something to do with the memory settings on the network card? > > BTW: I have tried to different Intel Etherxpress Cards, and bother of them on > IRQ 5 and 10, but the problem persists. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... > > --- > Jeremy Freeman > Valley Ineternet Providers >