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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!cairo!jason From: jason@cairo.anu.edu.au (jason andrade) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: After NetBSD 0l9 hangs, the IRQ/Adress of the ethernet card changes. Date: 7 Oct 93 23:38:16 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <jason.750037096@cairo> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.16 Summary: Why does the address of the WD card i ahve change back after netbsd hangs ? Keywords: netbsd,ethernet,bug I've no idea if this is part of the same problem with the 'hanging' netbsd. Basically, the machine sits there, it can be pinged, it's unusable. However, after hitting the reset key, the ethernet card is no longer detected and hence it isn't on the network anymore. This does *not* happen with a shutdown -r or a reboot .. its fine then.. I've got to boot from a dos floppy (ugh) .. use Diagnose and change the IRQ and address back and then reboot into netbsd .. This happens about thrice a week as my netbsd box hasn't managed to stay alive for more than 2 days. The hardware is a Western Digital 10BaseT elite 16 plus and its being used in a 486/66 in a 16 bit slot. I'd changed it to IRQ 2 and I/O Address 280 but it keeps resetting it to IRQ 3 and I/O Address 240 .. sigh.. any answers would be nice.. email please.. i'll summarise -jason