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From: "Eugene Radchenko" <eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Switching Ethernet Cards
Date: 9 Jul 1996 12:10:18 +0400
Organization: Lab. of Org.Synth., MSU
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In <4qpla8$juf@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
> Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> wrote:
> > interrupt for the ethernet card. I always get the same result: the card is
> > probed at boot time, but "ed0: device timeout" is reported whenever I try to
> > use it.
[...]
> > Also, I borrowed a WD8003E card and got the same result. I'm not sure I
> > had all the jumpers set correctly though, as I have no documentation for
> > that card. It was reported correctly at boot time. That one has AUI and
I am not sure if this applies to this case, but I had (visually) the same
problem (normal boot-init and 'ed0: device timeout' after ifconfig). I found
that to use SMC EtherEZ card (8416BT) you have to completely turn off the PnP
on it using text-mode EZsetup utility (not the fancy-GUI EZstart). Otherwise
card did not work and its config was being screwed after each BSD run. Also,
EZstart somehow failed to see the coax connector on the card.
Hope this helps Genie
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Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry
E-mail: eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su Fax: +7-(095)939-0290
Ordinary mail: Chair of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia
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