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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.london.silverplatter.com!skutter3!joed From: joed@hollie (Joe Drumgoole (ERL Hacker)) Subject: Re: ed0 (wd8013EP) timeout with 2.0.5 during ftp install Organization: SilverPlatter Information Ltd. Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 17:02:05 GMT Message-ID: <JOED.95Sep20180205@hollie> In-Reply-To: harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za's message of 19 Sep 1995 20:53:58 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hollie.london.silverplatter.com References: <JOED.95Sep17210631@hollie> <43itle$nt4@news.bu.edu> <43nal6$iu1@owl.und.ac.za> Sender: usenet@london.silverplatter.com (news) Lines: 58 I've solved my problem. I have two cards in the machine an Intel Express and a WD8013. By removing the Intel Card and also disabling sio1 (because the WD8013 is configured for irq 3) everything booted nicely, and ftp is currently sucking down release 2.0.5. Thanks to everyone replied or emailed me. Joe. In article <43nal6$iu1@owl.und.ac.za> harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson ) writes: Xref: news.london.silverplatter.com comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2597 Path: news.london.silverplatter.com!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!nntp.und.ac.za!beastie.cs.und.ac.za!harverso From: harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 19 Sep 1995 20:53:58 GMT Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa Lines: 25 References: <JOED.95Sep17210631@hollie> <43itle$nt4@news.bu.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote: : 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. Whilst the problem might be one of the hardware problems mentioned, I was getting this error on a router of mine on a coax Network (yes, Coax - you remember, With the T-Pieces ? ;) When the coax segment wasn't closed (someone stepped on one of the T-pieces and jarred it loosed.. You might wanna check the integrity of the cables.. Tony -- ~~~|~~~ aka: Tony Harverson - the #za Stalker | rog = harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za "...Let us die young or let us live forever/We Don't have the power but we never say never.." - Alphaville -- Joe Drumgoole joed@silverplatter.com Software Engineer SilverPlatter Information NV "All opinions expressed are my own."