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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!gw2.att.com!gw1.att.com!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ed0 (wd8013EP) timeout with 2.0.5 during ftp install Date: 18 Sep 1995 04:47:42 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <43itle$nt4@news.bu.edu> References: <JOED.95Sep17210631@hollie> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:06:31 GMT) honorable Joe Drumgoole (ERL Hacker), residing at joed@hollie wrote: |I'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a machine which was |previously running 1.1.5.1 quite happily. However ed0 (a WD8013EP) keeps |timing out when it it is touched by any sort of network command. It is |hardwired (via the board jumpers) to port 0x280 and irq 3. I therefore us |boot -c to configure these options prior to boot however it still timeout |although the kernel detects the card at boot time. Welcome to the club! I tried both cards ones. I was explained there is a problem with motherboard chip-set (yours must be from Intell too). |I also have an Intel Ethernet Express card installed in the same machine. |I tried boot from that as an alternative but the boot kernel panics as soon |as it touchs the intel device. Try to use the multi-pin connector on Intell's card -- that helped me. Do not forget the link2 option for `ifconfig' for the card (you put it into /etc/sysconfig file next to the other options of ix0-device). Good luck! -mi -- Connection closed by foreign host