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From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Using NE2000 clone
Date: 20 Jun 1995 17:59:31 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy
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Marty Leisner 25733 (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) wrote:
> I booted a 2.0 kernel (I just installed) with an NE2000 clone
> at 0x300/interrupt 4 (I changed this when I booted with -c, default
> with interrupt 5)
>
> It doesn't seem to want to work (I keep getting
> "ed1: device timeout"
Look for an interrupt conflict. I ran into this the other night,
and it turned out that my PAS16 sound card (even though it's not
currently being used by FreeBSD) had a jumper configured to use the same
IRQ as my NE2000 clone.
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.