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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!HERMES!frc.niwa.cri.nz!news From: wdk@frc.niwa.cri.nz (Wayne Knowles) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ed0: device timeout (help) Date: 21 Apr 1996 13:09:05 +1200 Organization: NIWA Fisheries Research, Wellington, NZ. Lines: 26 Sender: wdk@neptune.niwa.cri.nz Message-ID: <q3iveue632.fsf@neptune.niwa.cri.nz> References: <4l695g$sup@river.biddeford.com> <4l7fgm$520@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: neptune.niwa.cri.nz In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 19 Apr 1996 07:31:34 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4l7fgm$520@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > >I'm getting 'ed0: device timeout' during boot and cant > >get the (ethernet) netwoking working... > > > >The device is > >ed0 irq 10 port 300 (this is correct and works under dos & NT) > > Maybe the IRQ is incorrect nevertheless; NT might try to configure it > itself. (FreeBSD used to do this as well, but doesn't do it any > longer since it was reported to modify the EEPROM of the cards in some > cases.) > > The only other alternative is that the wrong interface is active > (AUI vs. UTP vs. BNC). Agreed. You may also want to check the BIOS settings for PCI PnP to make sure INT 10 is available to the ISA bus. If all else fails try changing the cards interrupt and I/O address to ensure there is no conflict. -- _____ Wayne Knowles Title : Systems Manager / o \/ NIWA Fisheries Research Usenet: wdk@frc.niwa.cri.nz \/ v /\ PO. Box 14-901, Kilbirnie `---' Wellington, NEW ZEALAND