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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bootup hangs on ed0
Date: 6 Mar 1997 04:38:31 GMT
Organization: Cool Dudes Inc.
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In article <331DBEFB.5260@mem.net>, Ken <welk@mem.net> says:
>
>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
>

Sometimes this happens when a Plug and Play network card is inserted
in a PnP-aware BIOS machine.  You go into the software diagnostics and
turn off Plug and Play, then reboot the machine and the machine's BIOS
probes the PnP port on the adapter card, turing it right back on.

Somewhere there is PnP support for setting up those annoying PnP
soundcards, you might be able to adapt that to configure your netcard.
However, the easiest way is to simply swap out the card for another -
if you want I'll trade you your card for a non-pnp network card.

Ted