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From: Ken <welk@mem.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bootup hangs on ed0
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 12:44:11 -0600
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Nope, no jumpers on this card. I had originally installed a NE1000
compatiable card in the FreeBSD machine but never got that to work at
all. So I swapped cards from a client and the FreeBSD machine and the
NE1000 worked fine in the client and the NED2000 works only in the
FreeBSD machine after being accessed by something else followed by a
warm boot.

I guess I'll just have to get another network card. Are software-only
configurable cards likely to cause more trouble in FreeBSD?

Thanks

Ken
welk@mem.net

Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <331C7874.5A71@mem.net>,
>         Ken <welk@mem.net> writes:
> > I am having a problem completing bootup with FreeBSD 2.1.6 (yes, I know
> > I need to upgrade to 2.1.7). The boot process hangs right after showing
> > on the screen the checking/initializing for device sc0 and the next
> > device to be checked/initialized is ed0.  I can get it to work if I boot
> > in DOS and run the adapter's diagnostics, which say the card is fine,
> > and then do a warm boot. As long as I do warm boots after the DOS
> > diagnostics on the adapter card, booting FreeBSD goes fine. Once a cold
> > boot occurs, however, FreeBSD hangs.
> >
> > This is a NE2000 compatible ethernet card. Is there anything I can do
> > with FreeBSD to remedy this situation?
> 
> Are there any jumpers on the card to stop this "soft configuration" ?
> If not, you're in trouble.
> 
> --
> Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
>       <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !