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From: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ed0: timeout; FAQ says "IRQ conflict", i'm still stumped
Date: 25 Jan 1996 05:24:31 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management
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Message-ID: <4e746f$4am@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
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[this was originally sent by me to a friend who's good with
PC unices. I think it should stand alone without any other
context, sorry if i'm wrong, reply with any questions (or better
yet answers!. ...thanks in advance.]
OK, the freebsd faq sez:
> 3.13. My network card keeps getting errors like, ``ed1: timeout''.
> What's going on?
>
> This is usually caused by an interrupt conflict (e.g., two boards using
> the same IRQ). FreeBSD prior to 2.0.5R used to be tolerant of this, and
> the network driver would still function in the presence of IRQ
> conflicts. However, with 2.0.5R and later, IRQ conflicts are no longer
> tolerated.
that sort of explains why i'm having the problem, and why bsd 2.0
didn't show the problem, but as i said, i don't have any other cards in
this machine (it has onboard video, IDE, and floppy).
I've tried both settings for hard config for the card; as my first
message says, when i set the card to irq 10, the freebsd boot message
shows it as IRQ 5 (weirdness?)
The boot message also says "memory at d8000" or something very similar
regarding the card; that is the address that should be for a boot ROM,
based on what's printed on the card.
I tried disabling the second serial port so that there would be no IRQ
conflict on IRQ 3, and setting the card to that IRQ, no luck.
any suggestions as to where to go next? (to a 3com card, i suppose?)
> > The elite is supported. I use them frequently. What configuration did
> > you have for it? It should be IRQ 10, port 300, mem 0xCC00
>
> On the failed machine at home, i think i left it at auto-configured,
> which i suppose could have been set to something weird, but i never
> had problems with it when i used it before.
>
> on my p60 at nubs, i have the same card and i tried both
> irq 10, port 300 (sensed it at ed1; said "irq 5" on the console
> at boot time), and irq 3 port 280 (sensed at ed0).
>
> The card works fine from DOS and worked fine under freebsd 2.0 (as
> recently as right before i did the 2.1 install; i blew away 2.0
> but wanted to check that i didn't have anything left on the disk
> before i did and ftp'd a bunch of shit off).
>
> but when i go to do a net install it doesn't work right:
> i get an "ed0: device timeout" message. (or similar for ed1
> if i reconfigure the card).
>
> the machine has no other expansion cards; it's a p60 from CCS.
>
> danno
> --
> dan pritts ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support dan.pritts@umich.edu
> Zed's Dead, Baby.
danno
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